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Translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Quid videbis in Sulamite, nisi choros...
Language: Latin 
[ ... ]
 Quam pulchra es, et quam decora,
   carissima, in deliciis!
[ ... ]
Ego dilecto meo,
   et ad me conversio ejus.
[ ... ]

About the headline (FAQ)

See also Victoria's Vadam et circuibo.


Text Authorship:

  • by Bible or other Sacred Texts , no title, appears in Canticum Canticorum Salomonis (Song of Songs of Solomon), no. 7

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-11-07
Line count: 40
Word count: 208

How fair and how pleasant
 (Sung text for setting by H. Skempton)
 See original
Language: English  after the Latin 
 ... 
 How fair and how pleasant art thou, 
   O love, for delights!
 ... 
I am my beloved's, 
   and his desire is toward me.
 ... 

Composition:

    Set to music by Howard Skempton (b. 1947), "How fair and how pleasant", first performed 2002, lines 6,10 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Rise up, my love, no. 4

Text Authorship:

  • by Bible or other Sacred Texts , no title, appears in Song of Songs of Solomon / Canticle of Canticles (KJV), no. 7

Based on:

  • a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , no title, appears in Canticum Canticorum Salomonis (Song of Songs of Solomon), no. 7
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-11-07
Line count: 39
Word count: 305

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