To Althea from prison - Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings

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⌛ Period → Late Romantic ◈ Genre → Art songs

♯ Key C# major

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → Solo Tenor

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range D-1 – C6

♩ Tempo moderate (92)

◷ Duration ~2 min

¶ Language → English

Measures 64

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 5

CPDL # 16476

Editor John Henry Fowler

Posted 2008-03-30

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

B-3 – E-5

Piano

F3 – C6

(2)

D-1 – A-4

¶Lyrics / Text

When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates: When I lie tangled in her hair, Or fettered to her eye; The gods, that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crowned, Our hearts with loyal flames; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, And healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. When (like committed linnets) I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my king; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. '''Note:''' Third stanza is omitted in this setting.