How dear to me the hour (Alicia Adelaide Needham)

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• (Posted 2023-11-21)  CPDL #77506:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-21).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 425 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: How dear to me the hour
Composer: Alicia Adelaide Needham
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1900 Novello and Co.'
Description: Irish Air: FEIS CEOIL

Prize arrangement at the 1900 Irish Music Festival

Original text and translations

English text

How dear to me the hour when daylight dies,
And sunbeams melt along the silent sea,
For then sweet dreams of other days arise,
And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee.

And, as I watch the line of light, that plays
Along the smooth wave toward the burning west,
I long to tread that golden path of rays,
And think ’twould lead to some bright isle of rest.