When comes my Gwen (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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CPDL #16400: Sibelius4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-3-21). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 75 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 75 KB, MIDI: 12 KB, Sib4: 47 KB.
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General Information
Title: When comes my Gwen
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1903
Description: Number 1 of Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 6.
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Original text and translations
English text
- When comes my Gwen,
- More glorious then
- The sun in heaven appeareth;
- And summer's self
- To meet this elf
- A smile more radiant weareth.
- When comes my love,
- The moon above
- Shines bright and ever brighter;
- And all the black
- And sullen wrack
- Grows in a moment lighter.
- When comes my Queen,
- The treetops green
- Bow down to earth to greet her;
- And tempests high
- That rend the sky
- Disperse, ashamed to meet her.
- When comes my sweet
- Her love to greet,
- My cares and sorrows vanish;
- For on her face
- Rests heavenly grace,
- Which troubles all doth banish.
- When comes my dear,
- The darkness drear
- 'Twixt God and me is riven;
- Her loving eyes
- Reveal the skies
- And point the way to heaven.
- Lyrics: E. O. Jones
- Based on a text in Welsh by Mynyddog (1833-1877)
