She alone of shepherdesses (Ernest Markham Lee)

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• (Posted 2023-11-08)  CPDL #77106:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-08).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 590 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: She alone of shepherdesses
Composer: Ernest Markham Lee
Lyricist: Louise Imogen Guiney
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1894 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

A Seventeenth-Century Song

She alone of Shepherdesses
    With her blue disdayning eyes,
Wo’d not hark a Kyng that dresses
        All his lute in sighes:
            Yet to winne
            Katheryn,
I elect for mine Emprise.

None is like her, none above her,
    Who so lifts my youth in me,
That a littel more to love her
        Were to leave her free!
            But to winne
            Katheryn,
Is mine utmost love’s degree.

Distaunce, cold, delay, and danger,
    Build the four walles of her bower;
She’s noe Sweete for any stranger,
        She’s noe valley flower:
            And to winne
            Katheryn,
To her height my heart can Tower!

Uppe to Beautie’s promontory
    I will climb, not loudlie call
Perfect and escaping glory
        Folly, if I fall:
            Well to winne
            Katheryn!
To be worth her is my all.