Looking backward - Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings

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⌛ Period → Late Romantic ◈ Genre → Art songs

♯ Key C minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → Solo Tenor

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range E-1 – E-6

♩ Tempo 75

◷ Duration ~2 min 31 sec

¶ Language → English

Measures 48

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 4

CPDL # 16621

Editor John Henry Fowler

Posted 2008-04-14

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

B3 – E-5

C3 – E-6

E-1 – B4

¶Lyrics / Text

::O my child love, ::my love of long ago, ::How great was life ::when thou and I were young ! ::The world was boundless, ::For we did not know; ::A life, a poem, ::For we had not sung. ::Now is the world grown small ::and we thereon ::Fill with mere care and toil ::each narrow day; ::Elves from the wood, ::Dreams from my heart are gone ::And heaven is bare, ::for God is far away. ::Canst thou not come ::and touch my hand again, ::And I look on thee ::with grave and inocent eyes ? ::Thy God has many angels; ::I would fain Woo for one hour ::One angel from the skies. ::O my child love, ::come back come back to me, ::And, laughing, lead me ::from the toil and din ! ::Lay on my heart ::those small hands tenderly ::And let the whole world in. :'''''Lyrics: Julian Sturgis - (1848 - 1904), "Looking Backwards" '''''