by Florence Stevenson (1922 - 1991)
Welcome all you lords
Language: English
Welcome all you lords and all you ladies so fine, come and listen to my chronicle, to the chronicle of nine. I’ve come to sing you a ballad, just a rhyme, you might say, without reason, though it does tell a sad story and the story is reason enough. What does anything mean of itself and in itself save that it is a part of something else? Life happens, does it not? An herb flower, pulled from its bed, dies but lives, to flavor food. Saving your presence, my lords and ladies, come and listen to my chronicle, to the chronicle of nine.
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Authorship:
- by Florence Stevenson (1922 - 1991), "Ballad", written 1975, appears in The Chronicle of Nine Days of Jane Grey, no. 2 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arnold Rosner (1945 - 2013), "Welcome all you lords", op. 81 no. 1 (1984), from opera The Chronicle of Nine, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2020-01-08
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