Rain has fallen all the day (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2025-05-27)  CPDL #85113:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-05-27).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 359 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Rain has fallen all the day
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: James Joyce
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SMzATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for five voices of a poem by James Joyce, no. 32 from 'Chamber Music' (publ. 1907).

Original text and translations

English text

Rain has fallen all the day.
O come among the laden trees:
The leaves lie thick upon the way
Of memories.

Staying a little by the way
Of memories shall we depart.
Come, my beloved, where I may
Speak to your heart.