Go seek her out all courteously

Go seek her out all courteously,
    And say I come, 
Wind of spices whose song is ever
    Epithalamium. 
O, hurry over the dark lands
    And run upon the sea 
For seas and lands shall not divide us
    My love and me.

Now, wind, of your good courtesy
    I pray you go, 
And come into her little garden
    And sing at her window; 
Singing: The bridal wind is blowing
    For Love is at his noon; 
And soon will your true love be with you,
    Soon, O soon.

by James Joyce (1882-1941) , from Chamber Music, no. 13, published 1907

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by William A. Billingsley (1922-) , "Go seek her out all courteously" [tenor and piano], from James Joyce Songs, no. ?
by James Brown , "Go seek her out all courteously" [tenor or baritone and piano]
by Jack Maurice Jarrett (1934-) , "Go seek her out all courteously", 1965 [SATB and piano], from Love's Counsel, no. ?

FRE French (Guy Laffaille)

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