This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...with the motto, The Glories of this world pass. This song, too, is on the whole quiet in tone; and there is a beautiful phrase, Lento Flebile, at the reference to the loss, by Adam, of the lovely lawns of Paradise. In No. 5, The New Moon's silver Sickle, Hafiz thinks of his soul's reaping-time with awe ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...with the motto, The Glories of this world pass. This song, too, is on the whole quiet in tone; and there is a beautiful phrase, Lento Flebile, at the reference to the loss, by Adam, of the lovely lawns of Paradise. In No. 5, The New Moon's silver Sickle, Hafiz thinks of his soul's reaping-time with awe, and cries to his Good Genius to awake; then exclaims Woe's me! and falls silent, while an impressive passage tells of his thoughts. The arpeggios that follow "while my glad spirit mounts," are perhaps a little too like the orthodox treatment of such a theme--an unusual thing with Bantock. Even if it is meant ironically I doubt its success. This, however, is only a passing incident; and the following Largamente, ma con spirito, " Sky, boast not thy starry pomp," is again admirable. A recurrence of the rhythmical phrase twice referred to follows, and the song ends with a note of irony. These Ghazals are scored, but the score is not yet published. The last of these Hafiz songs is a separate one, "// that Angel of Shiraz," to Justin McCarthy's translation. It is perhaps in some ways the most mature of them all. The rather unfortunate phrase--" to a lovely face what need is there of paint or powder?"--is given in a quasirecitative, which is certainly the best way of treating it, though the phrase jars, anyhow, with the atmosphere of the song. There are other passages in this quasirecitative, and it must be allowed that the procedure is right, and in consonance with the character of the words; and yet the style of passage seems to arrest the torrent of poetical emotion. It is here that there occurs a reference to the insoluble mystery of things, set to a remarkable passage marked mistico, to which I shall...
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