Cease to blame my melancholy (John Stafford Smith)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-03-22). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 113 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Cease to blame my melancholy
Composer: John Stafford Smith
Lyricist: Sir John Henry Moorecreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1781
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Original text and translations
English text
Cease to blame my melancholy,
Though with sighs and folded arms
I muse with silence on her charms;
Cease to blame - I know 'tis folly.
Yet these mournful thoughts possessing,
Such delights I find in grief,
That, could heaven afford relief,
My fond heart would scorn the blessing.