# Is She Not Passing Fair?

- Music: Edward Elgar (died 1934)
- Words: Louisa Stuart Costello (died 1870)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6546527

## The words

Is she not passing fair, She whom I love so  
well?  
On earth, in sea, or air, Where may her equal  
dwell? Oh tell me, ye who dare To brave her  
beauty's spell, Is she not passing fair,  
She whom I love so well?  
Whether she speak or sing, Be jocund or  
serene,  
Alike in ev'rything, Is she not beauty's  
queen? Whether she speak or sing,  
Be jocund or serene, Alike in ev'rything,  
Is she not beauty's queen? Is she not passing  
fair, She whom I love so well?  
On earth, in sea, or air, Where may her equal  
dwell? Then let the world declare,  
let all who see her tell, That she is passing  
fair, passing fair, She whom I  

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).