A Fairy Town (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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CPDL #16763: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-5-01). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 66 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 66 KB, MIDI: 9 KB, Sib4: 42 KB.
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General Information
Title: A Fairy Town
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1909
Description: English Lyrics Set 9 - No. 2. - Lyrics by: Mary E. Coleridge - (1861 - 1907).
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Original text and translations
English text
- While the sun was going down,
- There arose a fairy town.
- Not the town I saw by day,
- Cheerless, joyless, dull and gray,
- But a far, fantastic place,
- Builded with ethereal grace,
- Shimmering in a tender mist
- That the slanting rays had kissed
- Ere they left their latest fire
- Touch with gold each slender spire.
- There no men and women be;
- Mermen, maidens of the sea,
- Combing out their tangled locks,
- Sit and sing amound the rocks.
- As their ruddy harps they sound
- With the seaweed twisted round,
- In the shining sand below
- See the city downward go !
- Lyrics: Mary E. Coleridge - (1861 - 1907).
