Crabbed age and youth (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• CPDL #16752: Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-04-28).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 55 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Crabbed Age and Youth
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, XII

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

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1902

Description: English Lyrics Set 5 - No. 3

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Original text and translations

English text

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:

Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;

Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;

Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;

Youth is nimble, age is lame;

Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;

Youth is wild, and age is tame.

Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee;

O, my love, my love is young!

Age, I do defy thee: O, sweet shepherd, hie thee,

For methinks thou stay'st too long.