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The Shower, Op. 71, No. 1 (Edward Elgar)
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- CPDL #13628:
Sibelius 4
- Editor: Robert Nottingham (submitted 2007-02-21). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 70 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
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.



