Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled (John Dowland)

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• (Posted 2012-04-25)  CPDL #26020:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-04-25).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 33 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #16795, with minor changes to underlay. Revised files uploaded 17/02/17.

• (Posted 2008-05-06)  CPDL #16795:         

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• (Posted 2001-03-11)  CPDL #02157:  PDF, MIDI and LilyPond files available.

Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2001-03-11).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 56 kB   Copyright: GnuGPL

Edition notes: partbook format, vocal parts, no lute part.

General Information

Title: Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled
Composer: John Dowland

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: SB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or Lute (optional)

First published: 1600 in The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, no. 5
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Original text and translations

English text

Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled,
What heav'n then governs earth?
O none, but hell in heaven's stead,
Chokes with his mists our mirth.

Mourn, mourn, look now for no more day
Nor night, but that from hell.
Then all must as they may
In darkness learn to dwell.

But yet this change, must needs change our delight,
That thus the sun should harbour with the night.