Sweet Echo (Ethel Mary Boyce)

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• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75768:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 723 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Sweet Echo
Composer: Ethel Mary Boyce
Lyricist: John Milton
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, some minor divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1922 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv’st unseen
        Within the airy shell
      By slow Meander’s margent green,
   And in the violet embroider’d vale
      Where the love-lorn Nightingale
Nightly to thee her sad Song mourneth well.
Canst thou not tell me of a gentle Pair
      That likest thy Narcissus are?
         O if thou have
      Hid them in some flow’ry Cave,
         Tell me but where!
Sweet Queen of Parly, Daughter of the Sphear,
So maist thou be translated to the skies,
   And give resounding grace to all Heav’n’s Harmonies.

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