Dirge in woods (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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CPDL #16590:       Sibelius4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-4-12).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 55 kbytes       Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 55 KB, MIDI: 8 KB, Sib4: 39 KB.

General Information

Title: Dirge in Woods
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: George Meredith - (1828-1909)

Number of voices: 1v  Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1907

Description: Number 4 of C. H. H. Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 8. Lyrics by Lyrics by the poet George Meredith - (1828 - 1909) - from Fortnightly Review - (August 1870).

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Original text and translations

English text

A wind sways the pines,

And below

Not a breath of wild air;

Still as the mosses that glow

On the flooring and over the lines

Of the roots here and there.

The pine-tree drops its dead;

They are quiet, as under the sea.

Overhead, overhead

Rushes life in a race,

As the clouds the clouds chase;

And we go,

And we drop like the fruits of the tree,

Even we,

Even so.

Lyrics: George Meredith - (1828-1909), Dirge in woods, from Fortnightly Review - (August 1870)