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<b>Title:</b> <i>The Witches' Wood</i><br>
<b>Title:</b> <i>The Witches' Wood</i><br>
{{Composer|Charles Hubert Hastings Parry|9=Witches' Wood, The)}}
{{Composer|Charles Hubert Hastings Parry|9=Witches' Wood, The)}}
'''Lyricist:''' [[Mary E. Coleridge]]


<b>Number of voices:</b> 1v&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Voicing:</b> {{cat|Solo Tenor|9=Witches' Wood, The}}<br>
<b>Number of voices:</b> 1v&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Voicing:</b> {{cat|Solo Tenor|9=Witches' Wood, The}}<br>
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<b>Published:</b> 1909 <br>
<b>Published:</b> 1909 <br>


<b>Description:</b> '' English Lyrics Set 9 - No. 3 -  Lyrics by:  Mary E. Coleridge - (1861 - 1907).''
<b>Description:</b> English Lyrics Set 9 - No. 3
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<b>External websites: </b>
<b>External websites: </b>
* [http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/coleridge/intro.html Biography of Mary E. Coleridge.]


==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
{{Text|English}}
{{Text|English}}


::There was a wood, a witches' wood,
:There was a wood, a witches' wood,
::All the trees therein were pale;
:All the trees therein were pale;
::They bore no branches green and good
:They bore no branches green and good
::But as it were a gray nun's veil.
:But as it were a gray nun's veil.
<br>
 
::They talked and chattered in the wind
::From morning dawn to set of sun,
::Like men and women that have sinned,
::Whose thousand evil tongues are one.
<br>
 
::Their roots were like the hands of men,
::Grown hard and brown with clutching gold,
::Their foliage women's tresses
::When the hair is withered, thin and old.
<br>
 
::There never did a sweet bird sing.
::For happy love about his nest.
::The clustered bats on evil wing
::Each hollow trunk and bough possessed.
<br>


::And in the midst a pool there lay
:They talked and chattered in the wind
::Of water white, as thou' a scare
:From morning dawn to set of sun,
::Had frightened off the eye of day
:Like men and women that have sinned,
::And kept the Moon reflected there.
:Whose thousand evil tongues are one.
<br>


:<b>''Lyrics: Mary E. Coleridge - (1861 - 1907).''</b>
:Their roots were like the hands of men,
<br>
:Grown hard and brown with clutching gold,
:Their foliage women's tresses
:When the hair is withered, thin and old.


:There never did a sweet bird sing.
:For happy love about his nest.
:The clustered bats on evil wing
:Each hollow trunk and bough possessed.


:And in the midst a pool there lay
:Of water white, as thou' a scare
:Had frightened off the eye of day
:And kept the Moon reflected there.


[[Category:Sheet music|Witches' Wood, The]]
[[Category:Sheet music|Witches' Wood, The]]
[[Category:Romantic music|Witches' Wood, The]]
[[Category:Romantic music|Witches' Wood, The]]

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General Information

Title: The Witches' Wood
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Mary E. Coleridge

Number of voices: 1v  Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1909

Description: English Lyrics Set 9 - No. 3

External websites:

Original text and translations

English.png English text

There was a wood, a witches' wood,
All the trees therein were pale;
They bore no branches green and good
But as it were a gray nun's veil.
They talked and chattered in the wind
From morning dawn to set of sun,
Like men and women that have sinned,
Whose thousand evil tongues are one.
Their roots were like the hands of men,
Grown hard and brown with clutching gold,
Their foliage women's tresses
When the hair is withered, thin and old.
There never did a sweet bird sing.
For happy love about his nest.
The clustered bats on evil wing
Each hollow trunk and bough possessed.
And in the midst a pool there lay
Of water white, as thou' a scare
Had frightened off the eye of day
And kept the Moon reflected there.
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