A Sonata in F Minor for Pianoforte Duet
“written while laid up in a damage with football, in ten days” ~ the teenage Hubert Parry
The schoolboy sport-team member with that heart
Condition just refused to let his weak
Young ticker hold him back. He struggled. In Hubert’s chart
Contending was the point. He wasn’t meek
In anything. A proof of this was what
He did when he was crippled in a game
And forced to spend ten days in sheets: a spot
Of serious composing. He would tame
His injury as something he could turn
To good account. He passed his days in bed
Creating music, managing to churn
Out more than just creations in his head,
A piece for four hands on piano black
And white. He simply would not let himself go slack.