Draw on, sweet night (Paul Merkus)

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• (Posted 2023-05-08)  CPDL #73733:           

Editor: Paul Merkus (submitted 2023-05-08).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 106 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Draw on, sweet night
Composer: Paul Merkus
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Sacred song

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2023
Description: 

External websites:

• https://pmerkus.dse.nl/Spheren/Html/op99.shtml

Original text and translations

English text

Draw on, sweet Night, best friend unto those cares
  That do arise from painful melancholy;
My life so ill through want of comfort fares,
  That unto thee I consecrate it wholly.

Sweet Night, draw on; my griefs, when they be told
  To shades and darkness, find some ease from paining;
And while thou all in silence dost enfold,
  I then shall have best time for my complaining.