Serenade (Edward Elgar)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-12). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 697 kB Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-06-30). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 105 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Serenade
Composer: Edward Elgar
Lyricist: Rosa Newmarch
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1914 Novello and Co.
Description: Op. 73, No. 2
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Original text and translations
English text
Dreams all too brief,
Dreams without grief,
Once they are broken, come not again.
Across the sky the dark clouds sweep,
And all is dark and drear above:
The bare trees toss their arms and weep,
Rest on, and do not wake, dear Love.
Since glad dreams haunt your slumbers deep,
Why should you scatter them in vain?
Happy is he, when Autumn falls,
Who feels the dream-kiss of the Spring;
And happy he in prison walls
Who dreams of freedom's rescuing;
But woe to him who vainly calls
Through sleepless nights for ease from pain!
Once they are broken, come not again.