There rolls the deep (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2017-12-21)  CPDL #48108:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-12-21).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 71 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #2063, with minor adjustments to underlay. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

• CPDL #02063:        (Finale 2000)

Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 2001-02-08).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 72 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

General Information

Title: There rolls the deep
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: No. 4 from Six Modern Lyrics (1897):

1. How sweet the answer
2. Since thou, O fondest
3. If I had but two little wings
4. There rolls the deep
5. What voice of gladness
6. Music, when soft voices die

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Original text and translations

English text

There rolls the deep where grew the tree.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There where the long street roars, hath been
The stillness of the central sea.
The hills are shadows, and they flow
From form to form, and nothing stands;
They melt like mist, the solid lands,
Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
But in my spirit will I dwell,
And dream my dream, and hold it true;
For tho’ my lips may breathe adieu,
I cannot think the thing farewell.