Ah! How Sophia can you leave? (John Wall Callcott)

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• CPDL #16983: Sibelius 5

Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2008-05-23).   Score information: A4 (landscape), 3 pages, 35 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: From the "Musical Times and Singing Class Circular", Vol. 5, No. 119, (Mar. 1, 1854), pp. 377-379. The first note in the 1st part, bar 26, has been changed in this edition from E to F.

General Information

Title: Ah! How Sophia can you leave?
Composer: John Wall Callcott

Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTT or SSS
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Not known

Description: A three part catch

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Original text and translations

English text

Ah! how Sophia can you leave
Your lover and of hope bereave?
Go fetch the Indian's borrowed plume,
Yet richer far than that you bloom.
I'm but a lodger in your heart;
And more than me I fear have part.