Echoes (Frederick Brandeis)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27). Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 860 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Echoes
Composer: Frederick Brandeis
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: sATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1882 Wm. A. Pond
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Original text and translations
English text
How sweet the answer Echo makes
To Music at night
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away o’er lawns and lakes
Goes answering light!
Yet Love hath echoes truer far
And far more sweet
Than e’er, beneath the moonlight’s star,
Of horn or lute or soft guitar
The songs repeat.
’Tis when the sigh,—in youth sincere
And only then,
The sigh that’s breathed for one to hear—
Is by that one, that only Dear
Breathed back again.