Sing some homely ballad (Arthur Berridge)

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• (Posted 2023-09-22)  CPDL #75615:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-22).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 524 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Sing some homely ballad
Composer: Arthur Berridge
Lyricist: Charles Kent
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1890 Paterson & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

Sing to me some homely ballad,
    Plaintive with the tones of love;
Harp and voice together blending,
    Like the doling of the dove.

Let each cadence melt in langour
    Softly on my ravished ears,
Till my half-closed eyes are brimming
    With a rapture of sweet tears.

Summon back fond recollections
    Such as gentle sounds prolong—
Flies of memory embalming
    In the amber of a song.