Life (Arthur Wellesley Batson)
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- (Posted 2023-09-20) CPDL #75548:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-20). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 548 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Life
Composer: Arthur Wellesley Batson
Lyricist: Thomas Campbell (poet)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1894 Robert Cocks & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Love and Freedom
How delicious is the winning
Of a kiss at Love’s beginning,
When two mutual hearts are sighing
For the knot there’s no untying!
Yet remember, ’midst your wooing
Love has bliss, but Love has ruing;
Other smiles may make you fickle,
Tears for other charms may trickle.
Love he comes and Love he tarries
Just as fate or fancy carries;
Longest stays, when sorest chidden;
Laughs and flies, when press’d and bidden.
Bind the sea to slumber stilly,
Bind its odour to the lily,
Bind the aspen ne’er to quiver,
Then bind Love to last for ever.
Love’s a fire that needs renewal
Of fresh beauty for its fuel:
Love’s wing moults when caged and captured,
Only free, he soars enraptured.
Can you keep the bee from ranging,
Or the ringdove’s neck from changing?
No! nor fetter’d Love from dying
In the knot there’s no untying.