Sorrow and pain (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2023-12-20)  CPDL #78410:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-20).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 450 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Sorrow and pain
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Charlotte Elliot
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1909 in Six Part-Songs for SATB, no. 3
Description: Novello and Co.

Original text and translations

English text

O, sweet are Sorrow and her sister Pain,
And dear the troubled discord of their song;
For Love, whose sleep grows heavy, soothed too long
By mild Prosperity’s unbroken strain,
Awakened by their boding cry is fain
To stretch his slackened pinions, doubly strong
Through fear lest Death should do his treasures wrong,
And his neglected joys untimely wane.

For still we doze away the summer hours
Until the first red spot is on the leaf;
Ah! then we cry, the blossom-time is brief,
Would these were buds again that now are flowers!
And, as we tread our too fast fading hours,
Love, faint with ease, wins Life anew from Grief.