Cara vale (John Wall Callcott)

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• CPDL #14718: Sibelius 5

Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2007-08-12).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 83 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Cara vale
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Robert Lowth^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsongs

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella Accompaniment added by William Horsley (1774-1858)
Published: 1824 or earlier

Description: Set to an elegy composed by Robert Lowth, bishop of London (1710-1787), written on the death of his daughter. Poem written in classical Latin elegiac couplets.

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Cara, vale! ingenio praestans, pietate, pudore,

Et plus quam natae nomine cara, vale!

Cara Maria, vale! At veniet felicius aevum,

Quando iterum tecum, sim modo dignus, ero.

Cara, redi, laeta tum dicam voce, paternos

Eia! age in amplexus, cara Maria, redi.

English translation
From 1834 New England Magazine

Dear one, farewell! with genius blessed,

With grace and piety,

But dearer by a daughter's name,

Alas ! farewell to thee

Farewell, Maria dear! a happier time

Will surely be,

When I again, if worthy found,

Shall meet with thee.

Dear one, return ! with joyful voice

My words will be,

Come to thy father's arms, Maria dear,

Return again to me.