I know my soul hath power (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- Editor: Rod Mather (submitted 2011-12-07). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 49 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2009-12-30). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 81 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Revised files uploaded 3/5/19.
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2005-11-12). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 39 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: I know my soul hath power
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: John Davies
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1918
Description: Songs of Farewell No. 2
- My soul, there is a country
- I know my soul hath power
- Never weather-beaten sail
- There is an old belief
- At the round earth's imagined corners
- Lord, let me know mine end
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Original text and translations
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.
German text
Ich weiß, dass meine Seele die Macht hat, alles zu wissen,
und doch ist sie ganz blind und unwissend;
Ich weiß, dass ich einer der kleinen Könige der Natur bin,
und doch bin ich ein Sklave der geringsten Dinge.
Ich weiß, dass mein Leben aus Schmerzen besteht und nur kurz währt.
Ich weiß, dass meine Sinne stets getäuscht werden,
und schließlich weiß ich, dass ich ein Mensch bin,
der ein stolzes und doch elendes Wesen ist.