If this be love (Jennifer Bastable)
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- (Posted 2025-04-10) CPDL #84460:
- Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-04-10). Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 420 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: If this be love
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Samuel Daniel
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: A setting for five voices (SSATB) of Sonnet IX from Samuel Daniel's cycle 'To Delia.'
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Original text and translations
English text
If this be love, to draw a weary breath,
Paint on floods, till the shore, cry to th'air,
With downward looks still reading on the earth,
The sad memorials of my love's despair.
If this be love, to war against my soul,
Lie down to wail, rise up to sigh and grieve me,
The never-resting stone of care to roll,
Still to complain my griefs, and none relieve me.
If this be love, to clothe me with dark thoughts,
Haunting untrodden paths to wail apart,
My pleasures horror, music tragic notes,
Tears in my eyes, and sorrow at my heart.
If this be love, to live a living death,
O then love I and draw this weary breath