In Cælia’s face my heaven is (Julius Harrison)

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• (Posted 2023-10-25)  CPDL #76607:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-25).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 585 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: In Cælia’s face my heaven is
Composer: Julius Harrison
Lyricist: Courtenay Cecil Mansel
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1920 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

In Cælia’s face my heaven is,
    Wherein her eyes like planets shine
And gleam athwart my cloudy skies,
    With radiance fitful, yet divine.
        Thy soul above the world is set,
        Above the vain world’s fume and fret.

When I regard thy golden prime,
    So dazzled as the sun doth eyes,
I envy Phäethon his crime,
    And though to fall, yet fain would rise.
        Alarms and fears me little move,
        I burn as he did, but for love.

To follow love, yet not to find,
    This is the smart, the woeful pain.
Ah! pain indeed! If thou wert kind,
    For me the year would turn again
        And burgeon forth a second spring,
        Love’s spring that doth no winter bring.

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