The lover’s song (John Haraden Pratt)

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• (Posted 2023-11-29)  CPDL #77709:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-29).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 459 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The lover’s song
Composer: John Haraden Pratt
Lyricist: Edward Rowland Sill
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1903 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Lend me thy fillet, love!
I would no longer see.
Cover mine eyelids close awhile,
And make me blind like thee.

Then might I pass her sunny face,
And know not it was fair;
Then might I hear her voice, her guess
Her starry eyes were there.

Ah! banished so from stars and sun,
Why need it be my fate?
If only she might dream me good,
And wise, and be my mate.

Lend her thy fillet, love!
Let her no longer see;
If there is hope for me at all,
She must be blind like thee.