I Know My Soul Hath Power (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• CPDL #10092:   Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2005-11-12).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 39 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: I know my soul hath power
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: John Davies (1569-1626)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1918
Description: Number 2 in a set of 6 known as the Songs of Farewell

External websites:

• Entry for "My soul, there is a country" at the "Lied and Art Songs Texts" Page

Original text and translations

English text

I know my soul hath power to know all things,

Yet she is blind and ignorant in all:

I know I'm one of Nature's little kings,

Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

I know my life's a pain and but a span;

I know my sense is mock'd in ev'rything;

And, to conclude, I know myself a Man,

Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.