Chimes (Margaret Ruthven Lang)

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• (Posted 2008-07-27)  CPDL #17692: 

Contributor: University of Rochester (submitted 2008-07-27).  Score information: 25 x 34 cm, 12 pages, 622 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Edition in E Major.

General Information

Title: Chimes, Op. 54 No. 1
Composer: Margaret Ruthven Lang
Lyricist: Alice Meynell (1847-1922)

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1915
Description: 

External websites:

• Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song

Original text and translations

English text

Brief, on a flying night,
From the shaken tower,
A flock of bells take flight,
And go with the hour.

Like birds from the cote to the gales,
Abrupt_ O hark!
A fleet of bells set sails,
And go to the dark.

Sudden the cold airs swing.
Alone, aloud,
A verse of bells takes wing
And flies with the cloud.