Sunset (Louis A. Coerne)

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• (Posted 2023-10-04)  CPDL #76047:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-04).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 319 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Sunset
Composer: Louis A. Coerne
Lyricist: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1920 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

The river sleeps beneath the sky,
And clasps the shadows to its breast;
The crescent moon shines dim on high;
And in the lately radiant west
The gold is fading into gray.
Now stills the lark his festive lay,
And mourns with me the dying day.
While in the south the first faint star
Lifts to the night its silver face,
And twinkles to the moon afar
Across the heaven’s graying space,
Low murmurs reach me from the town,
As Day puts on her sombre crown,
And shakes her mantle darkly down.