Sweet Echo! (John Clarke-Whitfeld)

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(Posted 2022-06-12) CPDL #69678:

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-06-12). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 617 kB Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

General Information

Title: Sweet Echo!
Composer: John Clarke-Whitfeld
Lyricist: Erasmus Darwin^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1798 in Op. 4
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Original text and translations

English text

Sweet Echo! sleeps thy vocal shell,
Where this high arch o'erhangs the dell;
While Tweed, with sun-reflecting streams,
Chequers thy rocks with dancing beams?

Here may no clamours harsh intrude,
No brawling hound or clarion rude;
Here no fell beast of midnight prowl,
And teach thy tortured cliffs to howl!

Be thine to pour these vales along
Some artless shepherd's evening song;
While night's sweet bird, from yon high spray
Responsive, listens to his lay.

And if, like me, some love-lorn maid
Should sing her sorrows to thy shade,
Oh, sooth her breast, ye rocks around,
With softest sympathy of sound.