Rest, sad eyes (Jeremy Rawson)

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Editor: Jeremy Rawson (submitted 2009-08-24).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 29 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Rest, Sad Eyes
Composer: Jeremy Rawson
Lyricist: Anonymous, c. 1600

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2009

Description: A setting of an anonymous 17th century poem for three-part unaccompanied choir.

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Original text and translations

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Weep you no more, sad fountains;
  What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
  Heaven's sun doth gently waste!
But my sun's heavenly eyes,
  View not your weeping,
  That now lies sleeping
  Softly, now softly lies
        Sleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,
  A rest that peace begets;
Doth not the sun rise smiling
  When fair at even he sets?
Rest you then, sad eyes!
  Melt not in weeping,
  While she lies sleeping,
  Softly, now softly lies
        Sleeping.