Farewell (Frederic Woodman Root)

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• (Posted 2023-12-04)  CPDL #77826:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-04).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 368 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Farewell
Composer: Frederic Woodman Root
Lyricist: William Tell Barnitz
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1869 Root & Cady
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Original text and translations

English text

The dewdrop is never so clear
As when morning’s first ray sees it glisten;
And music is never so clear
As when to its last notes we listen.

We never know how we have loved,
Till what we’ve most loved has departed;
For the truth of affection is proved
By the cheerless and desolate hearted.

So pleasures are born but to die,
And are linked to our hearts but to never,
Like stars shooting ’thwart a dark sky
Shining brightest when fading forever.