The curfew (Henry Thomas Smart)

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• (Posted 2019-07-04)  CPDL #54684:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-07-04).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 88 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: The curfew
Composer: Henry Thomas Smart
Lyricist: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 4, no. 142

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Original text and translations

English text

Solemnly, mournfully,
Dealing its dole,
The Curfew Bell
Is beginning to toll.
Cover the embers,
And put out the light;
Toil comes with the morning,
And rest with the night.

Dark grow the windows,
And quenched is the fire;
Sound fades into silence,--
All footsteps retire.
No voice in the chambers,
No sound in the hall!
Sleep and oblivion
Reign over all!