Fair as a Star (J. Guy Stalnaker)
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- Editor: J. Guy Stalnaker (submitted 2018-09-06). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 141 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Fair as a Star
Composer: J. Guy Stalnaker
Lyricist: William Wordsworth
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2018
Description: A setting of one of William Wordsworth's Lucy Poems: She dwelt among the untrodden ways, music inspired by Claude Debussy's piano prelude "La fille aux cheveux de Lin."
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Original text and translations
English text
Poems Volume I (1815) by William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
VIII.
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise,
And very few to love.
A Violet by a mossy stone
Half-hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her Grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!