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by Bible or other Sacred Texts
Translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Return!
Language: English  after the Latin 
My love is mine, and I am his;
He delights in the lilies.
Before the dawn wind rises,
Before the shadows flee, return!
Return, and be, my love,
As the gazelle,
The young stag
On the hills of Beter,
Where the cinnamon grows.

Note: texts compiled by Julie Dalton Williamson

Text Authorship:

  • by Bible or other Sacred Texts [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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. 2
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Return!", 1998 [ soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from From the Song of Songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts , from The Song of Songs: 2:10-13 [an adaptation] ; composed by Matthew King.
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  • Also set in English, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts , no title, appears in Song of Songs of Solomon / Canticle of Canticles (KJV), no. 2 ; composed by John La Montaine, Henry Purcell, David Sisco, Howard Skempton.
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  • Also set in English, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts [an adaptation] ; composed by Elaine Fine.
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  • Also set in English, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts [an adaptation] ; composed by Elaine Fine.
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  • Also set in English, a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts [an adaptation] ; composed by Vivian Fine.
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  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Song of Songs 2:3 ; composed by Marguerite Roesgen-Champion.
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  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Song of Songs 2:8 ; composed by Marguerite Roesgen-Champion.
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  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts [an adaptation] ; composed by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur.
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  • Also set in Latin, [adaptation] ; composed by Guillaume Bouzignac.
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  • Also set in Russian (Русский), adapted by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862) , no title, appears in Еврейские песни (Jevrejskije pesni) = Jewish songs, no. 2 [an adaptation] ; composed by Vojtěch Hlaváč, as Войтех Иванович Главач, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-05-08
Line count: 9
Word count: 43

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