# The Beggar Maid

- Music: Joseph Barnby (died 1896)
- Words: Alfred Tennyson, Lord (died 1892)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6478624

## The words

Her arms across her breast she laid:  
She was more fair than words can say:  
Barefooted came the beggar maid  
barefooted came the beggar maid Before the  
king Cophetua.  
In robe and crown the king stept down,  
To meet and greet her on her way;  
“It is no wonder,” said the lords,  
“It is no wonder,” said the lords,  
“She is more beautiful than day,  
she is more beautiful than day.”  
And shines the moon in clouded skies,  
She in her poor attire was seen:  
One praised her ankles, one her eyes,  
One her dark hair and lovesome mien,  
and lovesome mien. So, sweet a face,  
such angel grace, In all that land had never  
been:  
Cophetua sware a royal oath:  
“This beggar maid shall be my queen,  
my queen.”  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).