Evening brings us home (Frederic Hymen Cowen)

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• (Posted 2023-10-06)  CPDL #76104:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 654 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Evening brings us home
Composer: Frederic Hymen Cowen
Lyricist: John Skelton
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1910 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Upon the hills the wind is sharp and cold,
The sweet young grasses wither on the wold,
And we, O Lord, have wandered from Thy fold;
But evening brings us home.

We have been wounded by the hunter’s darts,
Our eyes are heavy, and our hearts
Search for Thy coming, when the light departs
At evening bring us home!

The darkness gathers, through the gloom no star
Rises to guide us; we have wander’d far;
Without Thy lamp we know not where we are;
At evening bring us home.

The clouds are round us, and the snow-drifts thicken,
O Thou, dear Shepherd, leave us not to sicken,
In the waste night; our tardy footsteps quicken;
At evening bring us home.