The maiden (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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CPDL #16961: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 4
Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-05-21).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 60 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 60 KB, MIDI: 7 KB, Sib4: 43 KB.

General Information

Title: The Maiden
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: Number 6 of C. H. H. Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 9

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Original text and translations

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Who was this that came by the way,
When the flowers were springing?
She bore in her hair the buds of May,
and a bird on her shoulder, singing
A girdle of the fairest green
Her slender waist confined,
And such a flame was never seen
As in her eyes there shined.
By the way she came, that way she went,
And took the sunlight with her.
The May of life shall all be spent
Ere she again come hither!