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Four Keats Songs     I.  II.  III.  IV.
(total duration 6')
 
  II. Shed No Tear! O Shed No Tear!

for Voice and Piano

duration 1½'

Composed for: Joyce Andrews
World Premiere: 1990, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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 Joyce Andrews, Soprano;
Neal Goren, Piano (484k mp3)

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Text:
 
 
Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
Dry your eyes! O dry your eyes,
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies--
Shed no tear.

Overhead! look overhead!
'Mong the blossoms white and red.
Look up, look up. I flutter now
On this flush pomegranate bough.
See me! 'tis this silvery bill
Ever cures the good man's ill.
Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Adieu, Adieu. I fly, adieu,
I vanish in the heaven's blue.
Adieu, Adieu!

                                John Keats (ca.1819)
 


 

  
     

Play Audio Excerpt
 Joyce Andrews, Soprano;
Neal Goren, Piano (484k mp3)

First Page of Score

 
                            
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