Who can dwell with greatness (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- (Posted 2016-05-08) CPDL #39606:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2016-05-08). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 98 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Who can dwell with greatness
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Henry Austin Dobson
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: A tribute to Queen Victoria, shortly before her death.
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Original text and translations
English text
Who can dwell with greatness? Greatness is too high;
Flowers are for the meadow, suns are for the sky;
Ah! but there is greatness in this land of ours,
High as is the sunight, humble as the flowers.
Queen, of thee the fable! Lady, thine the fate!
Royal, and yet lowly, lowly, and yet great;
Great in far dominion, great in pomp of years,
Greater still as woman, greatest in thy tears!