Sing on (Edward Roberts)

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• (Posted 2024-06-19)  CPDL #80985:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-06-19).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 386 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Sing on
Composer: Edward Roberts
Lyricist: Josephine Pollard
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1868 F. J. Huntington & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Sing on, those songs I love to hear,
Whose tones a joy impart,
Or fall in sadness on the ear,
And echo through the heart,
They link the present to the past,
And wondrous visions bring,
A spell upon the hour is cast;
Sing on; oh, sweetly sing!

Sing on, sing on,
Sing on; oh, sweetly sing,
O sing those songs I love to hear,
Sing on; oh, sweetly sing.

Yes, sing till I forget to hear
All else but those sweet tones,
And fancy that another sphere,
My longing spirit owns.
If thou couldst but those days restore,
Of youths unclouded spring,
I’d never wish thy music o’er;
Sing on; oh, sweetly sing!

The songs that never fail to please,
And win their meed of praise,
Are those familiar melodies,
We heard in earlier days.
Be thine the voice to wake the strain,
And o’er my heart to bring,
The scenes of youth and joy again;
Sing on; oh, sweetly sing!