A Dirge (Charles Villiers Stanford)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-19). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 552 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: A Dirge
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: William Johnson Cory
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1910 Stainer & Bell
Description: Four Part-Songs, Op. 110, No. 2.
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Original text and translations
English text
Naiad, hid beneath the bank
By the willowy river-side,
Where Narcissus gently sank,
Where unmarried Echo died,
Unto thy serene repose
Waft the stricken Anterôs.
Where the tranquil swan is borne,
Imaged in a watery glass,
Where the sprays of fresh pink thorn
Stoop to catch the boats that pass,
Where the earliest orchis grows,
Bury thou fair Anterôs.
Glide we by, with prow and oar:
Ripple shadows off the wave,
And reflected on the shore
Haply play about the grave.
Folds of summer-light enclose
All that once was Anterôs.
On a flickering wave we gaze,
Not upon his answering eyes:
Flower and bird we scarce can praise
Having lost his sweet replies:
Cold and mute the river flows
With our tears for Anterôs.