If all the world and love were young (Philip Hayes)

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• (Posted 2022-03-06)  CPDL #68284: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-03-06).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 410 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Includes separate 'cello part.

General Information

Title: If all the world and love were young
Composer: Philip Hayes
Lyricist: Sir Walter Raleigh^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TTTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: Violoncello

First published: 1786 The Muses' Fancy
Description: "The nymph's answer to the shepherd's invitation "Come live with me"" (Christopher Marlow).

Original text and translations

English text

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in ev'ry shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move,
To live with thee and be thy love.

Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle and thy posies,
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten;
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.

Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
Thy coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no mind can move
To come to thee and be my love.

If youth could last and love still breed,
Had joy no date and age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move,
And I might listen to thy love.

The first line is inverted, and there are other minor variances from If love and all the world were young