We watch’d her breathing (Jacob Leo Kerbusch)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-03). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 252 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: We watch’d her breathing
Composer: Jacob Leo Kerbusch
Lyricist: Thomas Hood
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1870 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: CHORALE
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Original text and translations
English text
The Death-Bed
We watched her breathing through the night,
Her breathing soft and low,
As in her breast the wave of life
Kept heaving to and fro.
So silently we seemed to speak,
So slowly moved about,
As we had lent her half our powers
To eke her living out.
Our very hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied—
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died.
For when the morn came, dim and sad,
And chill with early showers,
Her quiet eyelids closed—she had
Another morn than ours.