Echo
Language:
English
How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night,
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light!
Yet love hath echoes truer far
And far more sweet,
Than e'er, beneath the moonlight's star,
Of horn, or lute, or soft guitar,
The songs repeat.
'Tis when the sigh, in youth sincere,
And only then,
The sigh that's breath'd for one to hear,
Is by that one, that only dear,
Breath'd back again.
Input by Virginia Knight
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
, "How sweet the answer"
by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
, "Echo", published 1944 [high or medium voice and piano], from Nine English Songs, no. ?
by Thomas Pasatieri (1945-)
, "How sweet the answer", 2003 [voice and piano], from A rustling of angels, no. 1.
by Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
, "Echoes", 1868. [partsong]
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