The Train (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-05-15)  CPDL #80653:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-15).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 426 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Train
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Mary E. Coleridge
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1910 Stainer & Bell
Description: Eight Part-Songs, Op. 119, No. 4

Original text and translations

English text

A green eye—and a red—in the dark.
Thunder—smoke—and a spark.

It is there—it is here—flashed by.
Whither will the wild thing fly?

It is rushing, tearing thro’ the night,
Rending her gloom in its flight.

It shatters her silence with shrieks.
What is it the wild thing seeks?

Alas! for it hurries away
Them that are fain to stay.

Hurrah! for it carries home
Lovers and friends that roam.

Where are you, Time and Space?
The world is a little place,

Your reign is over and done,
You are one.