The Torch (Elgar)
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"The Torch" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1909 as his Op.60, No.1.
On the title-page it is described as a "Folk-Song (Eastern Europe), paraphrased by Pietro d’Alba and Edward Elgar." - Pietro d’Alba (alias Peter Rabbit) was Elgar’s pseudonym for himself.
With its companion song The River, it was performed by one of Elgar’s favourite singers, the mezzo-soprano Muriel Foster, at the Hereford Music Festival of 1912.
[edit] Lyrics
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- Come, O my love !
- Come, fly to me ;
- All my soul
- Cries out for thee :
- Haste to thy home,-
- I long for thee,
- Faint for thee,
- Worship thee
- Only, - but Come !
- Come, O my love !
Dark is the wood,-
- The track's ever lonely and gray ;
But joyous the blaze
- That welcomes and shows thee the way.
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- Come, O my love !
- Come, fly to me :
- All my soul
- Cries out for thee !
- Haste to thy rest,-
- I long for thee,
- Sigh for thee,
- Faint for thee;
- Come to my breast.
- Come, O my love !
Cold is the stream,-
- The ford is a danger to thee :
My heart is aflame,
- As the beacon that lights thee to me.
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- Come, O my love !
- Come, fly to me !
- All my soul
- Cries out for thee :
- Haste to thy home,-
- I long for thee,
- Faint for thee,
- Worship thee
- Only,- but Come !
- Come, O my love !
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- Pietro d’Alba.
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- From a Folk-Song (Eastern Europe)
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[edit] References
- Michael Kennedy, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0193154145
