Come, rest on this bosom (Michael William Balfe)

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• (Posted 2024-01-19)  CPDL #78811:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-01-19).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 541 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Come, rest on this bosom
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Arranger: Michael William Balfe
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1859 J. Alfred Novello
Description: AIR: LOUGH SHEELING

Original text and translations

English text

Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer,
Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here;
Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o’ercast,
And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.

Oh! what was love made for, if ’tis not the same
Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame?
I know not, I ask not, if guilt’s in that heart?
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.

Thou hast call’d me thy angel in moments of bliss,
Still thy Angel I’d be, ’mid the horrors of this,
Through the furnace, unshrinking, thy steps to pursue,
And shield thee, and save thee, – or perish there too!