The Shower, Op. 71, No. 1 (Edward Elgar)

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CPDL #15833: 

Editor: Robin Doveton (added 2008-01-24).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 156 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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CPDL #13628:  Sibelius 4

Editor: Robert Nottingham (added 2007-02-21).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 70 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Sibelius file zipped.

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Title: The Shower, Op. 71, No. 1
Composer: Edward Elgar
Lyricist: Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1914

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Original text and translations

English text

Cloud, if as thou dost melt, and with thy train

Of drops make soft the Earth, my eyes could weep

O'er my hard heart, that's bound up and asleep;

Perhaps at last,

Some such showers past,

My God would give a sunshine after rain.