There is an old belief (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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CPDL #20719: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Capella
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2009-12-30).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 93 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score, for practice only.
Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2005-11-12).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 69 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes:

General Information

Title: There is an old belief
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATBarB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1918

Description: Number 4 in a set of 6 known as the Songs of Farewell

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Original text and translations

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There is an old belief,
That on some solemn shore,
Beyond the sphere of grief
Dear friends shall meet once more.
Beyond the sphere of Time and Sin
And Fate's control,
Serene in changeless prime
Of body and of soul.
That creed I fain would keep
That hope I'll ne'er forgo,
Eternal be the sleep,
If not to waken so.