Three Aspects (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- CPDL #17059: Sibelius 4
- 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
English text
- 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.