Love in prayers (Charles Villiers Stanford)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-12). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 508 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Love in prayers
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Nicholas Breton
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1897 Boosey & Co.
Description: Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 3], Opus 67, No. 4.
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Original text and translations
English text
Say that I should say I love ye,
Would you say ’tis but a saying?
But if Love in prayers move ye,
Will ye not be moved with praying?
Think I think that Love should know ye,
Will you think ’tis but a thinking?
But if Love the thought do show ye,
Will ye loose your eyes with winking?
While that I do write you blessèd,
Will you write ’tis but a writing?
But if Truth and Love confess it,
Will ye doubt the true inditing?
No, I say, and think, and write it,
Write, and think, and say your pleasure;
Love, and Truth, and I indite it,
You are blessèd out of measure.