Looking backward (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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General Information

Title: Looking Backward
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Julian Sturgis - (1848-1904)

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

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1907

Description: Number 5 of C. H. H. Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 8. Lyrics by the poet Julian Sturgis - (1848 - 1904), from his book, "Songs", published in 1894.

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Original text and translations

English 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"