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Complete Score PDF 2 MBWikipediaA Child Asleep è una canzone, con versi tratti da una poesia scritta da Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Fu messa in musica dal compositore inglese
Edward Elgar nel dicembre 1909 e pubblicata nel 1910 da Novello. Era stata pubblicata per la prima volta dalla Browning nel 1840.
È dedicata ad Anthony Goetz, figlio di Ludovic Goetz e Muriel Foster, una delle cantanti preferite di Elgar e sua amica personale.
How he sleepeth! Vision unto vision calleth, While the young child dreameth on. Fair, O dreamer, thee befalleth With the glory thou hast won! Darker wert thou in the garden, yestermorn, by summer sun. We should see the spirits [rising] Round thee,—were the clouds away. 'Tis the child-heart draws them, singing In the silent-seeming clay. Singing!—stars that seem the mutest, go in music music all the way. Softly, softly! make no noises! Now he lieth [still] and dumb. Now he hears the angels' voices Folding silence in the room. Now he muses deep the meaning of the Heaven-words as they come. He is harmless—[we] are sinful. [We] are troubled—he, at ease. From his slumber, virtue winful Floweth outward with increase. Dare not bless him! but be blessèd by his peace—and go in peace.
Stanza I, riga 1a; stanze IV, V, IX, e XII
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