Night in the desert (Arthur Farwell)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-01-21). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 482 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Night in the desert
Composer: Arthur Farwell
Lyricist: Robert Southey
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1923 Silver, Burdett and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air;
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain
Breaks the serene of heaven:
In full-orbed glory yonder Moon divine
Rolls through the dark-blue depths.
Beneath her steady ray
The desert-circle spreads,
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.
How beautiful is night!