Break, break, break (Howard Kingsbury)

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• (Posted 2024-04-25)  CPDL #80389:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-25).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 376 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Break, break, break
Composer: Howard Kingsbury
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Taintor Brothers
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Original text and translations

English text

Break, break, break,
     On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
     The thoughts that arise in me.

O, well for the fisherman’s boy,
     That he shouts with his sister at play!
O, well for the sailor lad,
     That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships move on
     To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,
     And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break
     At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
     Will never come back to me.