When we two parted (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2008-06-09)  CPDL #17146:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-06-07).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 63 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: When We Two Parted
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: George Gordon Byron

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Tenor solo

Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1896

Description: English Lyrics - Set 4 no.3

1. Thine eyes still shined for me
2. When lovers meet again
3. When we two parted
4. Weep you no more
5. There be none of beauty's daughters
6. Bright star

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Original text and translations

English text

When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.

The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow --
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame;
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.

They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me --
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well:--
Long, long shall I rue thee,
Too deeply to tell.

In secret we met --
In silence I grieve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? --
With silence and tears.