Lamentation of Marie Antoinette (Stephen Storace)
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(Posted 2026-03-09) CPDL #88592:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2026-03-09). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 299 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes the original instrumental accompaniment (with parts).
- (Posted 2026-03-09) CPDL #88591:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2026-03-09). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 81 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment.
General Information
Title: Lamentation of Marie Antoinette
Composer: Stephen Storace
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard Orchestra
First published: 1793
Description: "Lamentation of Marie Antoinette, late Queen of France, on the morning of her execution."
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Original text and translations
English text
These eyes, that three long anxious years
Have wak'd to view unceasing woes,
Now swoll'n with sorrow, dim with tears,
One awful moment soon shall close.
Oh Lord, receive a contrite heart;
The suff'rer in her anguish save:
Sustain me in the hours that part
The monarch's prison from her grave.
Those pledges of a saint in heav'n
My voice, in death, to thee commends:
To nature be this pang forgiv'n,
And angels be the orphans' friends.
The murderers come; be hush'd my woe;
So sound of grief my silence break,
Lest tears, that for my children flow,
The tyrants' rage against them wake.
Their ruthless guards my steps attend;
The fatal axe of death they raise;
And on my life, disastrous end,
Exulting crowds around me gaze.
My hands they bind; be firm, my heart!
On earth no longer suff'ring crave:
Past are the painful hours that part
The monarch's prison from her grave.put text here