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For Cupid lives within her eyes. | For Cupid lives within her eyes. | ||
And if she open them on you, | And if she open them on you, | ||
Your hearts will quick be | Your hearts will quick be piercèd through. | ||
So cold is she, and yet so fair; | So cold is she, and yet so fair; | ||
That all who see, do bow the knee; | That all who see, do bow the knee; |
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-12-04). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 88 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Take heed, ye shepherd swains
Composer: Robert Lucas Pearsall
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 10, no. 293
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Original text and translations
English text
Take heed, ye shepherd swains, beware!
In yonder grove the fair Sirena lies.
O! wake her not, nor venture there:
For Cupid lives within her eyes.
And if she open them on you,
Your hearts will quick be piercèd through.
So cold is she, and yet so fair;
That all who see, do bow the knee;
And worship in despair.