Lovers' parting (Walter Cecil Macfarren)

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  • (Posted 2023-11-13)  CPDL #77275:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-13).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 373 kB   Copyright: Personal
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  • (Posted 2019-11-21)  CPDL #56006:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-11-21).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 97 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: Lovers' parting
Composer: Walter Cecil Macfarren
Lyricist: Thomas Middleton

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1876 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 9, no. 279
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Original text and translations

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Weep eyes, break heart!
My love and I must part.
Cruel fate true love do soonest sever.
O, I shall see thee never, never.
O, happy is the maid whose life takes end,
Ere it knows parents' frown or loss of friend.
Weep eyes, break heart!
My love and I must part.
Cruel fate true love do soonest sever.
O, I shall see thee never, never.