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Gentle winds around her hover
Staff Notation • Secular, Partsongs
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Gentle winds around her hover by Louis Emanuel — Lyrics
Gentle winds around her hover,
Seek the bower where she sleeps,
Whisper, zephyrs, how I love her,
Tho’ my lip still silent keeps;
Tell her that my peace is flown,
Say my heart is all her own;
Mingle, zephyrs, with her sigh,
Bid her let me hope or die.
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About Gentle winds around her hover
Louis Emanuel captures a tender scene of unrequited love in this SATB partsong. The English text paints a picture of a speaker entrusting his affections to the elements – gentle winds and the moon – to convey his feelings to a sleeping beloved. He longs for her to know his peace has been lost and his heart belongs to her, urging the zephyrs to mingle with her sighs and plead for a response. The moon is asked to shine its pure beams upon her and murmur his devotion, emphasizing the depth of his emotion: for her, he lives or dies.
