Whence (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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CPDL #16660:
Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-4-15). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 57 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 57 KB, MIDI: 9 KB, Sib4: 42 KB.
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General Information
Title: Whence
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1907
Description: Number 1 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
- Will he come to us out of the west
- With hair all blowing free ?
- Will he come, the last and best,
- Over the flowing sea,
- Prophet of days to be ?
- Aye, he will come; the unseen choir
- Attend his steps with song,
- And on his breast a deep toned lyre,
- And on his lips a word like fire
- To burn the ancient wrong.
- Bay crowned and goodlier than a king;
- With voice both strong and sweet
- The song of freedom will he sing
- And I from out of the crowd shall fling
- My rose-wreath at his feet.
- Lyrics: Julian Sturgis - (1848 - 1904), "Whence"
