How sweet the answer (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-12-22). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 79 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Reformatting of #25130, with minor corrections to the underlay. A cappella version. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2011-12-09). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 59 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: How sweet the answer
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard reduction
First published: 1897
Description: No. 1 from Six Modern Lyrics (1897):
- How sweet the answer
- Since thou, O fondest
- If I had but two little wings
- There rolls the deep
- What voice of gladness
- Music, when soft voices die
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Original text and translations
English text
How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night,
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light.
Yet Love hath echoes truer far,
And far more sweet,
Than e'er beneath the moonlight's star,
Of horn or lute, or soft guitar,
The songs repeat.
'Tis when the sigh, in youth sincere,
And only then
The sigh that's breathed for one to hear,
Is by that one, that only dear,
Breathed back again.