title: Is she not passing fair?
text: # Is she not passing fair?
  
  Is she not passing fair? è una canzone scritta dal compositore inglese Edward Elgar.
  
  Fu completata il 28 ottobre 1886, ma non pubblicata fino al 1908, da Boosey & Co.
  
  Viene descritta come un "lai", scritta da Carlo, duca di Orléans (1391-1466) e tradotta [dal francese] da Louisa Stuart Costello.
  
  ## Versi
  
  IS SHE NOT PASSING FAIR?
  
      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 ?
      Then let the world declare,
         Let all who see her tell,
      That she is passing fair,
         She whom I love so well !
  
  ## Incisioni
  
  * Songs and Piano Music by Edward Elgar has "Is she not passing fair?" performed by Mark Wilde (tenor), with David Owen Norris (piano).
  * The Songs of Edward Elgar SOMM CD 220 Neil Mackie (tenor) with Malcolm Martineau (piano), at Southlands College, London, April 1999
  