Turn all thy thoughts to eyes (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2023-12-20)  CPDL #78428:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-20).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 364 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Turn all thy thoughts to eyes
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Thomas Campion
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 in Six Lyrics from an Elizabethan Song Book, no. 3
Description: Novello, Ewer, and Co.

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English text

Turn all thy thoughts to eyes,
Turn all thy hairs to ears,
Change all thy friends to spies
And all thy joys to fears;
True love will yet be free
In spite of jealousy.

Turn darkness into day,
Conjectures into truth,
Believe what th’ envious say,
Let age interpret youth:
True love will yet be free
In spite of jealousy.

Wrest every word and look,
Rack every hidden thought,
Or fish with golden hook;
True love cannot be caught:
For that will still be free
In spite of jealousy.