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(Posted 2006-07-17) CPDL #12032:

Editor: William Long (submitted 2006-07-17). Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 184 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: O let me weep
Composer: Henry Purcell
Larger work: The Fairy-Queen

Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Alto recorder (or violin) and basso continuo realized for keyboard, guitar, or baroque guitar

First published: 1689
Description: From The Faerie Queen, Act V.

External websites:

Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.

Original text

English text

O let me forever weep!
My Eyes no more shall welcome sleep:

I'll hide me from the sight of Day,
and sigh my Soul away.

He's gone, his loss deplore;
and I shall never see him more.

O let me weep! forever weep!

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-My Eyes no more shall welcome sleep:<br><br>
-I'll hide me from the sight of Day,<br>
-and sigh my Soul away.<br><br>
-He's gone, his loss deplore;<br>
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-O let me weep! forever weep!<br>
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