Looking backward (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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CPDL #16621: Sibelius4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-4-14). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 55 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Looking Backward
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1907
Description: Number 5 of C. H. H. Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 8. Lyrics by the poet Julian Sturgis - (1848 - 1904).
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Original text and translations
English text
- O my child love,
- my love of long ago,
- How great was life
- when thou and I were young !
- The world was boundless,
- For we did not know;
- A life, a poem,
- For we had not sung.
- Now is the world grown small
- and we thereon
- Fill with mere care and toil
- each narrow day;
- Elves from the wood,
- Dreams from my heart are gone
- And heaven is bare,
- for God is far away.
- Canst thou not come
- and touch my hand again,
- And I look on thee
- with grave and inocent eyes ?
- Thy God has many angels;
- I would fain Woo for one hour
- One angel from the skies.
- O my child love,
- come back come back to me,
- And, laughing, lead me
- from the toil and din !
- Lay on my heart
- those small hands tenderly
- And let the whole world in.
- Lyrics: Julian Sturgis - (1848 - 1904), "Looking Backwards"
