Sleeping, why now sleeping? (Elizabeth Stirling)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-02-24). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 192 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Sleeping, why now sleeping?
Composer: Elizabeth Stirling
Lyricist: Hoffmann
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1880 The Orpheus no.46
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Original text and translations
English text
Sleeping, why now sleeping?
The moon herself looks gay,
While through thy lattice peeping,
Wilt not her call obey?
Wake, love, wake,
Each star is beaming,
For thee its brightest ray,
And languishes the gleaming,
From fireflies now streaming
Athwart the dewy spray.
Then sleeping, why now sleeping?
The moon herself looks gay,
While through thy lattice peeping,
Wilt not her call obey?
Awake, the skies are weeping,
Because thou art away,
But if of me thou'rt dreaming,
Sleep, loved one, while you may.
Wake, love wake,
Music's wings shall hover
Softly thy sweet dreams o'er,
And fanning dark thoughts away,
While, dearest, 'tis thy lover
Who'll bid each bright one stay.
When sleeping, why now sleeping?
The moon herself looks gay,
While through thy lattice peeping,
Wilt not her call obey?