After the Battle (Thomas Richard Gonzalvez Jozé)

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• (Posted 2023-11-03)  CPDL #76921:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-03).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 695 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: After the Battle
Composer: Thomas Richard Gonzalvez Jozé
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1902 Novello and Co.
Description: Irish Air: Thy Fair Bosom

Original text and translations

English text

Night closed around the conqueror’s way,
And lightnings show’d the distant hill,
Where those who lost that dreadful day
Stood few and faint, but fearless still.
The soldier’s hope, the patriot’s zeal,
For ever dimm’d, for ever crost
Oh! who shall say what heroes feel,
When all but life and honour’s lost?

The last sad hour of freedom’s dream,
And valour’s task, moved slowly by,
While mute they watch’d, till morning’s beam
Should rise and give them light to die.
There’s yet a world, where souls are free,
Where tyrants taint not nature’s bliss;
If death that world’s bright opening be,
Oh! who would live a slave in this?