Take me, Mother Earth (Charles Gounod)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-11). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 511 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Take me, Mother Earth
Composer: Charles Gounod
Lyricist: Anna Brownell Jameson
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1872 in Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, Goddard & Co., London, Volume 1, no. 6
Description: Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society of 1872, No.6
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Original text and translations
English text
Take me, Mother Earth, to thy cold breast,
And fold me there in everlasting rest!
The long day is o’er,
I’m weary, I would sleep;
But deep, deep,
Never to waken more.
I have had joy and sorrow, I have prov’d
What life could give, have lov’d, and been belov’d;
I am sick, and heart-sore,
And weary; let me sleep;
But deep, deep,
Never to waken more.
To thy dark chamber, Mother Earth, I come,
Prepare thy dreamless bed in my last home;
Shut down the marble door,
And leave me! Let me sleep;
But deep, deep,
Never to waken more!