A Shepherd in the glade (Cyril Bradley Rootham)

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• (Posted 2023-12-04)  CPDL #77838:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-04).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 646 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A Shepherd in the glade
Composer: Cyril Bradley Rootham
Lyricist: John Dowland
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1904 Novello and Co.
Description: Prize winner: The Musical Times 1904 competition.

Original text and translations

English text

A shepherd in a glade
His plaining made
Of love and lover’s wrong
Unto the fairest lass
That trod on grass,
And thus began his song:
“Since love and fortune will,
I honour still
Your fair and lovely eye:
What conquest will it be,
Sweet Nymph, for thee,
If I for sorrow die?
Restore, restore my heart again,
Which love by thy sweet looks hath slain,
Lest, that enforced by your disdain I sing,
‘Fie, fie, fie on love, it is a foolish thing.’”

“My heart, where have you laid?
O cruel maid!
To kill where you might save,
Why have ye cast it forth
As nothing worth,
Without a tomb or grave?
O let it be entombed and lie
In your sweet mind and memory;
Lest I resound on every warbling string,
‘Fie, fie on love, it is a foolish thing.’
Restore, restore my heart again,
Which love by thy sweet looks hath slain,
Lest, that enforced by your disdain I sing,
‘Fie, fie, fie on love, it is a foolish thing.’”