Paradise regained (Money-Coutts, set by I. Albéniz) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


There is a garden somewhere set,
Where singing birds abound,
And plashing founts the marble fret
With soft persistent sound;

Sorrow and sighing thence shall flee,
And none shall there intrude,
Save those who by simplicity
Have won beatitude.

The simple heart and simple mind,
Sincere in trust and troth,
From honest pleasure unconfin'd
For honest love unloth;

And there shall you be queen; but I,
Shall I find entrance too?
Or must I roam eternity,
To search, [sweetheart]¹, for you?

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¹ Albéniz: "sweet heart"

Input by Alfredo García

Authorship

Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer (1852-1923)

Musa Verticordia

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

Four songs

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

SPA

Spanish

FRE

French

Date added to the website: 2008-12-06.

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