I know my soul hath power (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2005-11-12).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 39 kbytes   Copyright:CPDL
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Title: I Know My Soul Hath Power
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Motet
Language: English
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words by John Davies - (1569-1626) English.png 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.