Stars of the Night (William Webster Pearson)

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• (Posted 2023-11-27)  CPDL #77636:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 597 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Stars of the Night
Composer: William Webster Pearson
Lyricist: Edward Oxenford
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1891 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

Stars of the night! stars of the night!
In heaven so softly gleaming,
Look down, and with your mellowed light
Make sweet the hours of dreaming.

Ye are so chaste, ye are so fair,
That nought but joy can be your share;
Look down ye stars, and vigil keep
O’er all our dreams the while we sleep.

Stars of the night! stars of the night!
Your spell is now descending;
Our dreams are of the pure and bright,
No evil with them blending.

Cease not to shine, but till the morn
The earth with soothing rays adorn;
Look down, ye stars, and vigil keep
O’er all our dreams the while we sleep.