To Diana (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- (Posted 2009-09-08) CPDL #20119: (Sibelius 3)
- Editor: Charles Thompson (submitted 2009-09-08). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Soprano 2 Bar 5 Second beat changed from G to E flat in line with bars 21 and 37. Headed "Hymn to Diana" on the original copy.
General Information
Title: To Diana
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Ben Jonson
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SSA
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1875 in Three Trios for Female Voices, no. 2
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Original text and translations
English text
Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair,
Now the sun is laid to sleep,
Seated on thy silver chair
State in wonted manner keep:
Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess,
Goddess, excellently bright.
Earth, let not thy envious shade
Dare itself to interpose;
Cynthia's shining Orb was made
Heaven to clear when day did close:
Bless us then with wished sight Goddess,
Goddess, excellently bright.
Lay thy bow of pearl apart
And thy crystal shining quiver;
Give unto the flying hart
Space to breathe how short so ever.
Thou that mak'st a day of night Goddess,
Goddess, excellently bright.