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(Posted 2017-07-22) CPDL #45552:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-07-22). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 147 kB Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Tears, idle tears, Op.68:4
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1898
Description:

External websites:

Tears, idle tears at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)

Original text and translations

English text

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

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+{{Title|''Tears, idle tears, Op.68:4''}}
 {{Composer|Charles Villiers Stanford}}
 {{Lyricist|Alfred Tennyson}}
-{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br>
+{{Voicing|4|SATB}}
 {{Genre|Secular|Partsongs}}
 {{Language|English}}
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+==Original text and translations==
+{{Text|English|
+Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
+Tears from the depth of some divine despair
+Rise in the heart, and gather in the eyes,
+In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
+And thinking of the days that are no more.
-'''Description:'''
+Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
+That brings our friends up from the underworld,
+Sad as the last which reddens over one
+That sinks with all we love below the verge;
+So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
-'''External websites:'''
+Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
+The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
+To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
+The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
+So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
-==Original text and translations==
+Dear as remembered kisses after death,
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+And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
+On lips that are for others; deep as love,
+Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
+O Death in Life, the days that are no more!}}
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