Come away, death (Norman O’Neill)

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• (Posted 2024-03-21)  CPDL #79637:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-21).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 416 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Come away, death
Composer: Norman O’Neill
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1923 H. W. Gray
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Original text and translations

English text

Twelfth Night
Act II. Scene 4

Come away, come away, death,
    And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath,
    I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
            O prepare it;
My part of death, no one so true,
        Did share it.

Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
    On my black coffin let there be strown;
Not a friend, not a friend greet
    My poor corpse where my bones shall be thrown:
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
            Lay me, oh, where
Sad true lover never find my grave,
        To weep there!