Queen Mary's Song
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”Queen Mary’s Song” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1889. The words are from Lute Song by Tennyson.
The song was re-published as one of the ‘’Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar ‘’ (with English and German words) in 1907.
[edit] Lyrics
- Hapless doom of woman happy in betrothing,
- Beauty passes like a breath and love is lost in loathing :
- Low! my lute: speak low, but say the world is nothing.
- Low! lute, low!
- Love will hover round the flowers when they first awaken ;
- Love will fly the fallen leaf, and not be overtaken ;
- Low, my lute! O low, my lute! we fade and are forsaken.
- Low, dear lute, low!
[edit] References
- Kennedy, Michael, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0193154145
- Moore, Jerrold N. “Edward Elgar: a creative life” (Oxford University Press, 1984) ISBN 0193154471
