At the round earth's imagined corners (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• CPDL #10095:   Sibelius

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2005-11-12).   Score information: Letter, 15 pages, 148 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: At the round earth's imagined corners
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: John Donne (1572-1631)

Number of voices: 7vv   Voicing: SSAATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1918

Description: Number 5 in a set of 6 known as the Songs of Farewell

External websites:

• Entry for "At the round earth's imagined corners" at the "Lied and Art Songs Texts" Page

Original text and translations

English text
Holy Sonnet No. VII

At the round earth's imagined corners

blow your trumpets, angels

and arise from death

you numberless infinities of souls

and to your scattered bodies go!

All whom the flood did and fire shall overthrow

All whom war, death, age, agues, tyrannies,

despair, law, chance hath slain;

And you whose eyes shall behold God

And never taste death's woe,

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space,

For, if above all these my sins abound,

'Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace

When we are there.

Here on this lowly ground,

Teach me how to repent, for that's as good

As if Thoud'st sealed my pardon with

Thy blood.