The despairing Lover (Arthur Wellesley Batson)

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• (Posted 2023-09-20)  CPDL #75547:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-20).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 533 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The despairing Lover
Composer: Arthur Wellesley Batson
Lyricist: William Walsh
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Distracted with care
For Phyllis the fair,
Since nothing could move her,
Poor Damon, her lover,
Resolves in despair
No longer to languish,
Nor bear so much anguish,
But, mad with his love,
To a precipice goes,
Where a leap from above
Would soon finish his woes.

When in rage he came there,
Beholding how steep
The sides did appear,
And the bottom how deep,
His torments projecting,
And sadly reflecting
That a lover forsaken
A new love may get,
But a neck when once broken
Can never be set,
And, that he could die
Whenever he would,
Whereas he could live
But as long as he could,
How grievous soever
The torment might grow,
He scorned to endeavour
To finish it so,
But, bold, unconcerned
At thoughts of the pain,
He calmly returned
To his cottage again.