# Lady on the Silver Throne - Music: Walter Parratt (died 1924) - Words: Edmund Gosse - Licence of the score: CC0 1.0 - Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0) - Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6684909 ## The words Lady on the silver throne, Lady on the silver throne, Like the Moon Thou art to me Something bright, something bright, august and lone, Infinite in mystery; Infinite in mystery; How can I a pilgrim, sing Such a dazzling, distant thing? But the Moon came down, came down to earth, Wiping tears from humble eyes; Woman in thy smiles and sighs: Woman in thy smiles and sighs: Empress! Empress! take the praise, Empress, take the human praise, take the human praise, take the human praise That a subject dares not raise, that a subject dares not raise. Lady on the silver throne, Lady on the silver throne, Like the Moon, like the Moon Thou art to me something bright, something bright, august and lone, Infinite, Infinite in mystery; How can I, a pilgrim, sing? How can I, a pilgrim, sing Such a dazzling distant thing? But the Moon came down, Wiping tears from humble eyes; Woman in thy smiles and sighs: Woman in thy smiles and sighs: Empress Empress! take the praise, take the praise Empress take the human praise, the human, human praise, Empress, take the human praise That a subject dares not raise, that a subject dares not raise. Lady on the silver throne, Lady on the silver throne, Like the Moon, like the Moon Thou art, thou art to me Something bright, something bright, august and lone, Infinite in mystery; Infinite in mystery; How can I, sing, how can I, a pilgrim, sing Such a dazzling, distant thing? How can I, a pilgrim, sing Such a distant thing? But the Moon came down, Wiping tears from humble eyes; Wiping tears from humble eyes; Woman in thy smiles and sighs: to grief and mirth, Woman in thy smiles and sighs: Empress Empress! Empress! Empress, take the praise, Empress, take the human praise, the human praise, Empress, take the praise, the human praise That a subject dares not raise, a subject dares not raise. Lady on the throne, Lady on the silver throne, Like the Moon, Thou art to me Something bright, something bright, august and lone, Infinite in mystery; in mystery; How can I, a pilgrim, sing, a pilgrim, sing, sing Such a dazzling, distant, distant thing? How can I, a pilgrim, sing Such a distant thing? But the moon came down to earth, Wiping tears from humble eyes; Thou dost bend to grief and mirth, Woman in thy smiles and sighs: Thou dost bend to grief and mirth, Empress Empress, take the human praise, human praise, Empress, take the human praise, take the human praise, Empress, take the human praise, Empress, take the human praise That a subject dares not raise dares not raise, that a subject dares not raise. Lady, Lady on the silver throne, Like the Moon, like the Moon Thou art to me Something bright, something bright, august and lone, Infinite in mystery; Infinite; How can I, a pilgrim, sing Such a dazzling, distant thing, a dazzling distant thing? How can I, a pilgrim, sing Such a dazzling distant thing? But the Moon came down to earth, Wiping tears from humble eyes; Wiping tears from humble eyes; Thou dost bend to grief and mirth, Thou dost bend to grief and mirth, Empress Empress! Empress, take the human human praise, Empress, take the praise, take the human praise, Empress, take the human praise, take the praise That a subject dares not raise, take the praise that a subject dares not raise. Like the Moon, like the Moon thou art to me Something bright, something bright, august and lone, Infinite in mystery; Infinite in mystery; How can I, a pilgrim sing, a pilgrim, sing Such a dazzling, distant thing? How can I, a pilgrim, sing? But the Moon came Wiping tears from humble eyes; Thou dost bend to grief and mirth, Thou dost bend to grief and mirth, Woman, in thy smiles and sighs, Empress, take the human praise, Empress! Empress, take human praise, Empress, take the praise, take the praise a subject dares not raise. 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).