Love's question and reply (John B. Grant)

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  • (Posted 2023-10-23)  CPDL #76541:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-23).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 403 kB   Copyright: Personal
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  • (Posted 2020-03-27)  CPDL #57714:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-03-27).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 101 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Love's question and reply
Composer: John B. Grant
Lyricist: Charles Mackay

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1882 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 15, no. 423
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Original text and translations

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I send a letter to my dear
Each morning by the lark,
And every night the nightingale
Brings answer ere the dark.
The question needs no other words,
And this, and this is the reply:
“I’ll love thee, dearest, while I live,
And bless thee if I die.”

I send a message by the rose,
It says, “Thou breathing grace,
Thy modest virtue, like this flower,
Spreads fragrance round thy place.”
The lily brings the answer meet,
“O thou, O thou whom I adore,
My heart is spotless as these leaves,
And loves thee evermore.”