Laugh at loving if you will (Percy Pitt)

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• (Posted 2023-11-28)  CPDL #77684:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-28).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 340 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Laugh at loving if you will
Composer: Percy Pitt
Lyricist: Francis Money-Coutts
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1902 Novello and Co.
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English text

Laugh at loving if you will,
But no laughing Love can kill!
Still he reigns in maidens’ eyes,
Conquers with a sweet surprise,

And still, though all the world is dark and sleeps,
Love, like a sunbeam through the shadow creeps
And gentle hearts in earnest passion steeps.

Laugh at loving as you may,
Love will laugh another day!
If he laugh not you shall weep
For his favour ere you sleep!

Come to his altar then, in time be wise,
Bring Venus’ apples, that poor lover’s prize,
And pansies, softer than their mistress’ eyes!