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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-10). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 358 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Sleep, gentle sister
Composer: Alfred Arthur Graley
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1874 Taintor Brothers
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Original text and translations
English text
Robed in the garments of the tomb,
Sweet, gentle sister, be thy rest:
Earth, in thy bosom find her room,
Room for the beautiful and blest.
Sleep, gentle sister,
Sleep, gentle sister,
Sleep where no mortal sorrow
Breaks thy calm repose.
Death’s pallid signet marks the brow,
Hushed is the voice that charmed the ear,
Beams the bright eye no longer now,
Tear can no longer answer tear.
Death for our sister had no sting,
Christ was her refuge and her stay,
Under the shadow of his wing,
Calmly she breathed her life away.
Oft at the placid evening hour,
Pensive we’ll gather ’round thy bed,
There will we strew the fragrant flower,
Emblem of youth and beauty fled.