The light of Love (Arthur Wellesley Batson)

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• (Posted 2023-09-20)  CPDL #75549:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-20).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 515 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The light of Love
Composer: Arthur Wellesley Batson
Lyricist: John Bowring
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Hark! the very heaven is ringing
With the matin song of peace;
Hark! a thousand warblers singing,
Waft their music on the breeze;
All to life to love are waking,
From their wings their slumbers shaking;
But my Lila still is sleeping
In her fair and flowery nest,
And the Zephyr round her creeping,
Fondly fans her breathing breast.

Sleep, thou loved one! sweetly sleep!
Angels here thy vigils keep!
Blest in innocence arrayed,
I from fortune’s favours flee;
Shrouded in the forest shade,
More than blest by love and thee,
Calm and peaceful time rolls by,
O! has gold a ray so bright,
As thy seraph smile of life
Throws o’er happy poverty.

Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov (1787-1855)
transl. Sir John Bowring