The dream (Elizabeth Stirling)

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• (Posted 2023-12-12)  CPDL #78107:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 758 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The dream
Composer: Elizabeth Stirling
Lyricist: A. T.^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1858 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Dream the dream that’s sweetest,
While sleep is on thine eye;
For when the sun thou meetest,
Those visions all shall fly,
Fly like the dews adorning
The ivy leaf by night,
That perish with the morning,
As transient and as bright.
Dream the dream that’s sweetest,
While sleep is on thine eye.

Dream the dream that’s sweetest.
While youth is in thine heart;
When manhood’s noon thou greetest,
Those visions all depart:
The heart is all forsaken
By joys of heav’nly birth;
Then sleep and never waken,
For peace is not of earth.
Dream the dream that’s sweetest,
While youth is in thine heart.