O never say that I was false of heart (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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CPDL #18302:  Icon_pdf.gif   Icon_snd.gif  Sibelius 4
Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 72 kbytes       Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 72 KB, MIDI: 11 KB, Sibelius 4: 46 KB.

General Information

Title: O never say that I was false of heart
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: William Shakespeare - (1564-1616) - Sonnet No. 109

Number of voices: 1v  Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1907

Description: Number 4 of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 7

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Original text and translations

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O never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify!
As easy might I from myself depart.
As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have rang'd,
Like him that travels, I return again;
Just to the time, not with the time exchang'd, -
So that myself bring water for my stain.
Never believe, though in my nature reign'd
All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously be stain'd,
To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;
For nothing this wide universe I call,
Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.


Lyrics: William Shakespeare - (1564-1616) - Sonnet No. 109