Text: Alfred Tennyson, from "Queen Mary"
Music: Edward Elgar, "Queen Mary's Song" from Edward Elgar's 7 Lieder
Hapless doom of woman
happy in betrothing,
Beauty passes like a breath
and love is lost in loathing;
Low! my lute:
Speak low, but say the world is nothing.
Low! lute, low!
Love will hover round the flowers
when they first awaken;
Love will fly the fallen leaf,
and not be overtaken;
Low, my lute!
O low, my lute! we fade and are forsaken.
Low, dear lute, low!
 Edward Elgar, Queen Mary's Song
Felicity Lott
Edward Elgar, Queen Mary's Song
Konrad Jarnot
Mary Stuart (1542 – 1587)
Mary, Queen of Scots
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명목으로 1587년 나이 44세에 참수형으로 죽는다.
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