If thou art sleeping, Maiden (Henry Ernest Nichol)

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• (Posted 2023-11-21)  CPDL #77520:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-21).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 386 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: If thou art sleeping, Maiden
Composer: Henry Ernest Nichol
Lyricist: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1889 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

If thou art sleeping, maiden,
Awake, and open thy door.
’T is the break of day, and we must away,
O’er meadow, and mount, and moor.

Wait not to find thy slippers,
But come with thy naked feet:
We shall have to pass through the dewy grass,
And waters wide and fleet.

From the Portuguese by Gil Vicente (c.1465-c.1536)