Take me, Mother Earth (Charles Gounod)

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• (Posted 2023-10-11)  CPDL #76240:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-11).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 511 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Take me, Mother Earth
Composer: Charles Gounod
Lyricist: Anna Brownell Jameson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 in Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, Goddard & Co., London, Volume 1, no. 6
Description: Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society of 1872, No.6

Original text and translations

English text

Take me, Mother Earth, to thy cold breast,
And fold me there in everlasting rest!
     The long day is o’er,
     I’m weary, I would sleep;
     But deep, deep,
     Never to waken more.

I have had joy and sorrow, I have prov’d
What life could give, have lov’d, and been belov’d;
     I am sick, and heart-sore,
     And weary; let me sleep;
     But deep, deep,
     Never to waken more.

To thy dark chamber, Mother Earth, I come,
Prepare thy dreamless bed in my last home;
     Shut down the marble door,
     And leave me! Let me sleep;
     But deep, deep,
     Never to waken more!