Chloris! yourself you so excel (Fritz Bennicke Hart)

Music files

L E G E N D

Disclaimer

How to download

ICON	SOURCE
	Pdf
	Mp3
	File details
	Help

• (Posted 2023-10-25)  CPDL #76610:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-25).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 325 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Chloris! yourself you so excel
Composer: Fritz Bennicke Hart
Lyricist: Edmund Waller
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1927 Allan & Co.
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

TO A LADY SINGING

Chloris! yourself you so excel,
When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought,
That like a spirit, with this spell
Of my own teaching I am caught.

That eagle’s fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a feather of his own,
Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

Had Echo, with so sweet a grace,
Narcissus’ loud complaints returned;
Not for reflection of his face,
But of his voice, the boy had mourned.