Hope (Thomas Ryan)

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• (Posted 2023-12-05)  CPDL #77868:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-05).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 277 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Hope
Composer: Thomas Ryan
Lyricist: J. M.^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1850 Mason & Law
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Original text and translations

English text

Gentle lady, cease thy sorrow,
Grief from Hope should solace borrow;
What were life if Hope were lost?
A helmless ship by tempest tost.
Gentle lady, cease thy sorrow,
Hope may bring a bright to-morrow.

Sorrow robs the heart of pleasure,
Hope restores it without measure;
Sorrow dims the sparkling eye,
Hope the tear-drop hastes to dry–
Gentle lady, cease thy sorrow,
Hope may bring a bright to-morrow.

J. M.
In “The New World”
29 May 1849