Six Part-Songs

Song Cycle by William Edmondstoune Duncan (1866 - 1920)

?. Echoes [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

How sweet the answer Echo makes
  To Music at night,
When, rous'd by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,
  Goes answering light!

Yet Love hath echoes truer far,
  And far more sweet,
Than e'er beneath the moonlight's star,
Of horn, or lute, or soft guitar,
  The songs repeat.

'Tis when the sigh, in youth sincere,
  And only then, --
The sigh that's breath'd for one to hear,
Is by that one, that only dear,
  Breath'd back again.

Text Authorship:

by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852), "Echo", appears in Irish Melodies, first published 1821

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this page: Virginia Knight

Total word count: 82