Cara vale (John Wall Callcott)
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CPDL #14718: Sibelius 5
- Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (added 2007-08-12). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 83 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Cara vale
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsongs
Language: Latin
Instruments: None. Accompaniment added by William Horsley (1774-1858)
Published: 1824 or earlier
Description: Set to an elegy composed by Robert Lowth, bishop of London (1710-1787), written on the death of his daughter
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Written in classical Latin elegiac couplets
Cara, vale! ingenio praestans, pietate, pudore,
- Et plus quam natae nomine cara, vale!
Cara Maria, vale! At veniet felicius aevum,
- Quando iterum tecum, sim modo dignus, ero.
Cara, redi, laeta tum dicam voce, paternos
- Eia! age in amplexus, cara Maria, redi.
English translation
From 1834 New England Magazine
Dear one, farewell! with genius blessed,
- With grace and piety,
But dearer by a daughter's name,
- Alas ! farewell to thee
Farewell, Maria dear! a happier time
- Will surely be,
When I again, if worthy found,
- Shall meet with thee.
Dear one, return ! with joyful voice
- My words will be,
Come to thy father's arms, Maria dear,
- Return again to me.
