The Knight’s tomb (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-13)  CPDL #79510:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-13).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 493 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Knight’s tomb
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 Novello, Ewer and Co.
Description: Four Part-Songs, Op. 47, No. 4.

Original text and translations

English text

Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O’Kellyn?
Where may the grave of that good man be?—
By the side of a spring, on the breast of Helvellyn,
Under the twigs of a young birch tree!
The oak that in summer was sweet to hear,
And rustled its leaves in the fall of the year,
And whistled and roared in the winter alone,
Is gone,—and the birch in its stead is grown.—
The Knight’s bones are dust,
And his good sword rust;—
His soul is with the saints, I trust.