When eyes are beaming (Benjamin Mansell Ramsey)

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• (Posted 2023-11-30)  CPDL #77728:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-30).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 307 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: When eyes are beaming
Composer: Benjamin Mansell Ramsey
Lyricist: Reginald Heber
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

When eyes are beaming
What never tongue might tell;
When tears are streaming
From their crystal cell,
When hands are linked that dread to part,
And heart is met by throbbing heart,
Oh bitter, bitter is the smart
Of them that bid farewell!

When hope is chidden
That fain of bliss would tell,
And love forbidden
In the breast to dwell,—
When, fetter’d by a viewless chain,
We turn and gaze and turn again,
Oh death were mercy to the pain
Of those that bid farewell!