Invocation to Sleep (Julius Benedict)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-21). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 578 kB Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-02-27). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 115 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Invocation to Sleep
Composer: Julius Benedict
Lyricists: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1869 in Novello Part-Song Book (2nd Series), Vol. 1, no. 38
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Original text and translations
English text
Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me in delight awhile
Let some pleasing dreams beguile,
All my fancies, , that from thence
I may feel an influence,
All my powers of care bereaving.
Though but a shadow but a sliding,
Let me know some little joy
We that suffer long annoy
Are contented with a thought,
Through an idle fancy wrought,
Oh, let my joys have some abiding!