O the sad day (Pelham Humfrey)
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- (Posted 2024-10-19) CPDL #82394:
- Editors: Mick Swithinbank and Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2024-10-19). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 187 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: O the sad day
Composer: Pelham Humfrey
Lyricist: Thomas Flatman 1635–1688
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: T
Genre: Secular, Lament
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
First published: Not known
Description: A solo song
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Original text and translations
English text
O THE sad day!
When friends shall shake their heads, and say
Of miserable me--
'Hark, how he groans!
Look, how he pants for breath!
See how he struggles with the pangs of death!'
When they shall say of these dear eyes--
'How hollow, O how dim they be!
Mark how his breast doth rise and swell
Against his potent enemy!'
When some old friend shall step to my bedside,
Touch my chill face, and thence shall gently slide.
But--when his next companions say
'How does he do? What hopes?'--shall turn away,
Answering only, with a lift-up hand--
'Who can his fate withstand?'
Then shall a gasp or two do more
Than e'er my rhetoric could before:
Persuade the world to trouble me no more