There is an old belief (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2013-08-10)  CPDL #29818:      (Sibelius 7)

Editor: Raymond Nagem (submitted 2013-08-10).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Corrects a few note errors and engraving issues in CPDL #10094.

• (Posted 2009-12-30)  CPDL #20719:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2009-12-30).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 93 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score, for practice only.

• (Posted 2005-11-12)  CPDL #10094:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2005-11-12).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 69 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.

General Information

Title: There is an old belief
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATBarB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1918 in Songs of Farewell, no. 4
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

There is an old belief,
That on some solemn shore,
Beyond the sphere of grief
Dear friends shall meet once more.
Beyond the sphere of Time and Sin
And Fate's control,
Serene in changeless prime
Of body and of soul.
That creed I fain would keep
That hope I'll ne'er forgo,
Eternal be the sleep,
If not to waken so.
 

German text

Es gibt einen alten Glauben,
dass an einem festlichen Ufer
über die Sphäre der Trauer hinaus,
liebe Freunde sich einst wieder treffen werden.
Weit über den Raum von Zeit, Sünde
und schicksalhafter Bestimmung hinaus,
gelassen in unvergänglicher Vollkommenheit
von Körper und Seele.
Diesen Glauben würde ich gerne behalten.
Diese Hoffnung möchte ich nie aufgeben.
Ewig sei der Schlaf,
wenn ich nicht dazu erwache.