Come Away Death
COMPOSER’S NOTE
Written whilst I was Composer in Residence at Charterhouse School, this is a setting of a poem from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
DURATION
4 minutes
SOLOIST
Baritone
INSTRUMENTATION
Piano OR Strings
YEAR OF COMPOSITION
1995
PUBLISHER
Hawes Music
SHEET MUSIC
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Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O, prepare it!
My part of death, no one so true
Did share it.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
On my black coffin let there be strown.
Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover never find my grave,
To weep there!
Words: William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) from Twelfth Night
