Lover’s melancholy (Alice Mary Smith)

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• (Posted 2023-12-08)  CPDL #78022:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 400 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Lover’s melancholy
Composer: Alice Mary Smith
Lyricist: John Ford
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1870 Lamborn Cock& Co.
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English text

DAWN

Fly hence, shadows, that do keep
Watchful sorrows charm’d in sleep!
Love and griefs are so exprest
As they rather sigh than rest.
Tho’ the eyes be overtaken,
Yet the heart doth ever waken
Thoughts chain’d up in busy snares
Of continual woes and cares:
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep
Watchful sorrows charm’d in sleep!