Echoes (Cuthbert Harris)

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• (Posted 2023-10-24)  CPDL #76597:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-24).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 717 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Echoes
Composer: Cuthbert Harris
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1915 Novello and Co.
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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,
Then sigh that’s breathed for one to hear—
Is by that one, that only Dear
    Breathed back again.