The Shepherd’s Choice (Alexandra Thomson)

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• (Posted 2023-12-13)  CPDL #78177:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 666 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Shepherd’s Choice
Composer: Alexandra Thomson
Lyricist: William Browne
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1894 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Shall I tell you whom I love?
Hearken then awhile to me;
And if such a woman move
As I now shall versify,
Be assured ’tis she or none,
That I love, and love alone.

Nature did her so much right
That she scorns the help of art;
In as many virtues dight
As e’er yet embraced a heart:
So much good so truly tried,
Some for less were deified.

Wit she hath, without desire
To make known how much she hath;
And her anger flames no higher
Than may fitly sweeten wrath.
Full of pity as may be,
Though perhaps not so to me.

Such she is: and if you know
Such a one as I have sung;
Be she brown, or fair, or so,
That she be but somewhat young;
Be assured ’tis she, or none,
That I love, and love alone.