Of disdainful Daphne (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-12)  CPDL #79503:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 566 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Of disdainful Daphne
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: M. N. Howell^{create page} , attr.
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 Boosey & Co.
Description: Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 3], Opus 67, No. 5.

Original text and translations

English text

Shall I say that I love you,
Daphne disdainful?
Sore it costs as I prove you,
Loving is painful.

Shall I say what doth grieve me?
Lovers lament it.
Daphne will not relieve me;
Late I repent it.

Shall I die, shall I perish,
Through her unkindness?
Love, untaught love to cherish,
Showeth his blindness.

Shall the hills, shall the valleys,
The fields, the city,
With the sound of my outcries
Move her to pity?

The deep falls of fair rivers,
And the winds turning,
Are the true music-givers
Unto my mourning;

Where my flocks daily feeding,
Pining for sorrow
At their master’s heart-bleeding.
Shot with Love’s arrow.

From her eyes to my heartstrings
Was the shaft lancèd;
It made all the woods to ring,
By which it glancèd.

When this nymph had used me so,
Then she did hide her;
Hapless I did Daphne know,
Hapless I spied her.

Thus turtle-like I wail’d me,
For my love’s losing;
Daphne’s trust thus did fail me:
Woe worth such choosing!