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Stephen Paxton
(1734 - 1787)
Tell me, babbling echo
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From Paxton's "Selection of two songs, six glees and two catches", published posthumously as his Op. 7.
Lyrics: Anon, probably the composer
Tell me, babbling echo, tell me why
You return me sigh for sigh;
When I of slighted love complain,
You delight to mock my pain.
Bold intruder night and day,
Busy tell-tale hence away;
Me and my cares in silence leave,
Come not near me whilst I grieve.
But if my love, in all her charms,
Returns to bless my longing arms,
I'll call thee from thy dark retreat,
The joyful tidings to repeat.
Tell me, babbling echo, tell me why
You return me sigh for sigh;
When I of slighted love complain,
You delight to mock my pain.
Bold intruder night and day,
Busy tell-tale hence away;
Me and my cares in silence leave,
Come not near me whilst I grieve.
But if my love, in all her charms,
Returns to bless my longing arms,
I'll call thee from thy dark retreat,
The joyful tidings to repeat.