Tell me, my lute (William Henry Reed)

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(Posted 2023-12-01) CPDL #77756:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-01). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 449 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Tell me, my lute
Composer: William Henry Reed
Lyricist: Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1913 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Tell me, my lute, can thy soft strain
So gently speak thy master’s pain?
So softly sing, so humbly sigh,
That, though my sleeping love shall know
Who sings— who sighs below,
Her rosy slumbers shall not fly?
Thus, may some vision whisper more
Than ever I dare speak before.

The breath of morn bids hence the night,
Unveil those beauteous eyes, my fair; °
For till the dawn of love is there,
I feel no day, I own no light.

From The Duenna

° “fair” in original verse, Novello publication uses “sweet”