Peace; come away (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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Editor: Stuart McIntosh (added 2001-09-30).   Score information: 60 kbytes   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: A4 page format, Sibelius file is unzipped

General Information

Title: Peace; Come Away
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsongs

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

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Original text and translations

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Peace; come away: the song of woe
Is after all an earthly song:
Peace; come away: we do him wrong
To sing so wildly: let us go.

Come; let us go: your cheeks are pale;
But half my life I leave behind:
Methinks my friend is richly shrined;
But I shall pass; my work will fail.

Yet in these ears, till hearing dies,
One set slow bell will seem to toll
The passing of the sweetest soul
That ever look’d with human eyes.

I hear it now, and o’er and o’er,
Eternal greetings to the dead;
And "Ave, Ave, Ave," said,
"Adieu, adieu" for evermore.

Alfred Lord Tennyson