@sgneal13 Thank you! This recording was from a recital I gave with my wife, as a retrospective of our early careers. This was the first song my first singing teacher gave me. I have always loved it and it has remained very special!
Weep you no more sad fountains; What need you flow so fast? Look how the snowy mountains Heav'n's sun doth gently waste! But my sun's heav'nly eyes View not your weeping, That now lies sleeping. Softly now softly lies sleeping, sleeping. Sleep is a reconciling A rest that peace begets; Doth not the sun rise smiling When fair at even he sets? Rest you, then, rest, sad eyes! Melt not in weeping, While he lies sleeping, Softly now softly lies Sleeping, sleeping.
This is beautiful.
@sgneal13 Thank you! This recording was from a recital I gave with my wife, as a retrospective of our early careers. This was the first song my first singing teacher gave me. I have always loved it and it has remained very special!
Weep you no more sad fountains;
What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heav'n's sun doth gently waste!
But my sun's heav'nly eyes
View not your weeping,
That now lies sleeping.
Softly now softly lies sleeping,
sleeping.
Sleep is a reconciling
A rest that peace begets;
Doth not the sun rise smiling
When fair at even he sets?
Rest you, then, rest, sad eyes!
Melt not in weeping,
While he lies sleeping,
Softly now softly lies
Sleeping, sleeping.