A Character of Love (Henry Marcellus Higgs)

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• (Posted 2023-10-27)  CPDL #76729:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 515 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A Character of Love
Composer: Henry Marcellus Higgs
Lyricist: Samuel Daniel
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1915 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing;
A plant that with most cutting grows,
Most barren with best using.
Why so? If we enjoy it, soon it dies;
If not enjoyed, it sighing cries,
Hey ho, hey ho!

Love is a torment of the mind,
A tempest everlasting;
A heaven has made it of a kind,
Not well— nor full, nor fasting.
Why so? If we enjoy it, soon it dies;
If not enjoyed, it sighing cries,
Hey ho, hey ho!