To his flocks (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-08)  CPDL #79449:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 517 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: To his flocks
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 1], Opus 49, No. 1

Original text and translations

English text

Burst forth, my tears, assist my forward grief,
And show what pain imperious Love provokes!
Kind tender lambs, lament Love’s scant relief,
And pine, since pensive Care my freedom yokes.
Oh, pine to see me pine, my tender flocks!

Sad pining Care, that never may have peace,
At Beauty’s gate in hope of pity knocks.
But Mercy sleeps, while deep Disdain increase,
And Beauty Hope in her fair bosom locks;
Oh, grieve to hear my grief, my tender flocks.

Like to the winds my sighs have wingèd been,
Yet are my sighs and suits repaid with mocks;
I plead, yet she repineth at my teen.
Oh, ruthless rigour, harder than the rocks,
That both the shepherd kills, and his poor flocks.