SKU: A0.879608

Healey Willan's SATB a capella part-song setting of Sweet are the charms of her love exhibits lovely choral writing at its best. The text is by Barton Booth (1681-1733):

Sweet are the charms of her love,
More fragrant that the damask rose,
Soft as the down of turtle dove,
Gentle as air when Zephyr blows,
Refreshing as descending rains,
To sunburnt climes and thirsty plains.
True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun;
Constant as gliding waters roll,
Whose swelling tides obey the moon;
From ev'ry other charmer free,
My life and love follow thee.
Love, and his sister fair, the soul,
Twin-born, from heav'n together came,
Love with the universe control,
When dying seasons lose their name.
Divine abodes shall own his pow'r
When time and death shall be no more.

A piano reduction is included for use in rehearsal.