The maiden (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2008-05-21)  CPDL #16961:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-05-21).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 60 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: The maiden
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Mary E. Coleridge

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

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1909 in English Lyrics, Set 9, no. 6
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

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!