Speak, Music
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”Speak, Music” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901 as his Op.41, No.2. The work is dedicated to “Mrs. Edward Speyer, Ridgehurst.”
The words are from “The Song” in the poem “The Professor” by Arthur Christopher Benson.
At about the same time Elgar wrote a song In the Dawn, as his Op. 41, No. 2, with words from the same poem.
[edit] Lyrics
- Speak, speak, music, and bring to me
- Fancies too fleet for me,
- Sweetness too sweet for me,
- Wake, wake, voices, and sing to me,
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- Sing to me tenderly; bid me rest.
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- Rest, Rest! ah, I am fain of it!
- Die, Hope! small was my gain of it!
- Song, [song] take thy parable,
- Whisper, whisper that all is well,
- Say, say that there tarrieth
- Something, something more true than death.
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- Waiting to smile for me; bright and blest.
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- Thrill, thrill, string: echo and play for me
- All, all that the poet, the priest cannot say for me;
- Soar, voice, soar, heavenwards, and pray for me,
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- Wondering, wandering; bid me rest.
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[edit] References
- Michael Kennedy, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0193154145
