Three Aspects (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2008-06-02)  CPDL #17059:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-06-02).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 61 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Three Aspects
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. 1
Description: 

External websites:

• Recording 1930 by John McCormack – Archive.org

Original text and translations

English text

Some showed me Life
As 'twere a royal game,
Shining in every colour of the sun,
With prises to be played for, one by one,
Love, riches, fame.

Some showed me Life
As 'twere a terrible fight,
A ceasless striving 'gainst unnumbered foes,
A battle ever harder to the close,
Ending in night.

Thou - Thou dids't make of Life a vision deep
Of the deep happiness the spirit feels
When heavenly music Heaven itself reveals
And passions sleep,
and passions sleep.