Tell me, thou soul of love (Thomas Forbes Walmisley)

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• (Posted 2025-10-09)  CPDL #87075: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2025-10-09).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 109 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Tell me, thou soul of love
Composer: Thomas Forbes Walmisley
Lyricist: James Thomson
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: ATTBB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1830 (n/d)
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Original text and translations

English text

Tell me, thou soul of her I love,
Oh! tell me whither art thou fled?
To what delightful world above
Appointed for the happy dead?
Or dost thou, free at pleasure, roam,
And sometimes share thy lover's woe!
Where, void of thee, his cheerless home
Can now, alas! no comfort know.

Oh! if thou hov'rest round my walk,
While under ev'ry well-known tree
I to thy fancied shadow talk,
And ev'ry tear is full of thee.
Should then the weary eye of grief,
Beside some sympathetic stream,
In slumber find a short relief,
Oh! visit thou my soothing dream.