To Lucasta on going to the wars (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2008-05-16)  CPDL #16927:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-05-14).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 53 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: To Lucasta on Going to the Wars
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Richard Lovelace

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Tenor solo
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1895 in English Lyrics, Set 3, no. 1
Description: 

External websites:

• PDF of Richard Lovelace's 1817 printing of his 1649 book: "Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, …"

Original text and translations

English text

Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind
To war and arms I fly.

True, a new mistress now I chase,
The first foe in the field;
And with a stronger faith embrace
A sword, a horse, a shield.

Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Lov'd I not honour more.