No longer mourn (Arthur Somervell)

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• (Posted 2023-12-11)  CPDL #78046:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 386 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: No longer mourn
Composer: Arthur Somervell
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 J. & J. Hopkinson
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Original text and translations

English text

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell;
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if (I say) you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
But let your love even with my life decay,
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.

Sonnet 71