Three Aspects (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-06-02).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 61 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 61 KB, MIDI: 10 KB, Sibelius 4: 43 KB.

General Information

Title: Three Aspects
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Mary E. Coleridge

Number of voices: 1v  Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1909

Description: Number 1 of C. H. H. Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 9

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Original text and translations

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Some showed me Life
As 'twere a royal game,
Shining in every colour of the sun,
With prises to be played for, one by one,
Love, riches, fame.
Some showed me Life
As 'twere a terrible fight,
A ceasless striving 'gainst unnumbered foes,
A battle ever harder to the close,
Ending in night.
Thou - Thou dids't make of Life a vision deep
Of the deep happiness the spirit feels
When heavenly music Heaven itself reveals
And passions sleep,
and passions sleep.