Fairy Moonlight (William Batchelder Bradbury)
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- (Posted 2023-09-27) CPDL #75786:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 469 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Fairy Moonlight
Composer: William Batchelder Bradbury
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1879 Ivison, Blakeman and Company
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Original text and translations
English text
Hail to thee, queen of the silent night!
Shine clear, shine bright,
Yield thy pensive light;
Blithely we’ll dance in thy silver ray,
Happily passing the hours away.
Must we not love the stilly night,
Dressed in her robes of blue and white?
Heav’n’s arches ring,
Stars wink and sing,
Hail! silent night!
Fairy moonlight, Fairy, fairy, fairy moonlight.
Dart thy pure beams from thy throne on high;
Beam on, through sky,
Robed in azure dye;
We’ll laugh and sport while the night-bird sings,
Flapping the dew from his sable wings.
Sprites love to sport in still moonlight,
Play with the pearls of shadowy night;
Then let us sing,
Time’s on the wing,
Hail! silent night!
Fairy moonlight, Fairy, fairy, fairy moonlight.