We'll go no more a-roving (Jon Corelis)

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Editor: Jon Corelis (submitted 2011-09-08).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 48 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: We'll go no more a-roving
Composer: Jon Corelis
Lyricist: George Gordon Byron

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: B

Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

Published: 2011

Description: My musical setting for the poem by Byron. Written for male baritone; cello used here to simulate voice part.

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Original text and translations

English text

So, we'll go no more a roving
   So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
   And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
   And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
   And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
   And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
   By the light of the moon.