Love—the Minstrel (Frederick A. Challinor)

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• (Posted 2023-10-02)  CPDL #75968:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 581 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Love—the Minstrel
Composer: Frederick A. Challinor
Lyricist: Marion Ray^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1924 Banks & Son
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English text

O sweet-voiced Love, that in my heart
    Thy dulcet strains art ever singing,
How dost thou ply thy wondrous art,
    To give my wishes swifter winging.
As Morn aside Night’s curtain throws,
    Thy song I hear within me welling,
    My waking thoughts to thee compelling,
Ere yet my eyes unclose.

All through the day’s succeeding hours
    Thou singest many a winsome measure,
Of hearts aglow ’mid rosy bowers,
    Of whispered vows and fondest pleasure.
A tireless Minstrel, Love, art thou,
    And I, to hear thee, tireless ever;
    Yea, will I say thy song was never
So sweet to me as now.

Yet have I heard reproach of thee,
    For waywardness and wanton wiling,
Of frailty, and inconstancy,
    When thou hast done with thy beguiling.
And though thy music haply prove
    A syren-song for my undoing,
    I’ll take the joy and risk the rueing,
For oh, I love thee, Love.