Love’s fire (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-12)  CPDL #79504:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 534 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Love’s fire
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Edward Dyer
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 Boosey & Co.
Description: Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 3], Opus 67, No. 6.

(MONTANUS’ SONNET)

Original text and translations

English text

When the dog.
Full of rage.
With his ireful eyes
Frowns amidst the skies,
The shepherd to assuage
The fury of the heat.
Himself doth safely seat
By a fount
Full of fair,
Where a gentle breath,
Mounting from beneath,
Tempereth the air.
There his flocks
Drink their fill
And with ease repose,
While sweet sleep doth close
Eyes from toiling ill;
But I burn,
Without rest;
No defensive power
Shields from Phoebus’ lower;
Sorrow is my lot.
Gentle Love!
Lower no more;
If thou wilt invade
In the secret shade,
Labour not so sore;
I myself,
And my flocks.
They their love to please,
I myself to ease,
Both leave the shady oaks,
Content to burn in fire
If Love doth so desire.