Dirge in woods (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-04-12). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 55 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Dirge in Woods
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: George Meredith
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Tenor solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1907 in English Lyrics, Set 8, no. 4
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Original text and translations
English text
A wind sways the pines,
And below
Not a breath of wild air;
Still as the mosses that glow
On the flooring and over the lines
Of the roots here and there.
The pine-tree drops its dead;
They are quiet, as under the sea.
Overhead, overhead
Rushes life in a race,
As the clouds the clouds chase;
And we go,
And we drop like the fruits of the tree,
Even we,
Even so.
Lyrics: George Meredith - (1828-1909), Dirge in woods, from Fortnightly Review - (August 1870)