If love and all the world were young (Samuel Webbe)
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- CPDL #32150:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2014-06-01). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 69 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The octave-below-treble clef of the source has been retained for the Alto part. Appoggiature interpreted as normal notes. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: If love and all the world were young
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist: Walter Raleigh
Number of voices: 4vv Voicings: ATTB or TTTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: The lyrics (slightly altered) are taken from Sir Walter Raleigh's riposte to Christopher Marlowe's Come live with me, and be my love.
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Original text and translations
English text
1 If love and all the world were young,
And truth on ev'ry shepherd's tongue,
Thy fancied pleasures might me move,
And I might listen to thy love.
2 But time drives flocks from field to fold;
The rivers rage, and hills grow cold,
Then drooping Philomel is dumb,
And age complains of care to come.
4 Thy gowns, thy belts, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,
All these to me can nothing move,
To live with thee and be thy love.
6 If youth could last, and love remain,
Had joy no date, and age no pain,
Then these delights my mind might move,
And I might listen to thy love.