To Night (Percy Pitt)

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• (Posted 2023-11-28)  CPDL #77686:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-28).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 332 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: To Night
Composer: Percy Pitt
Lyricist: John Malcolm
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1899 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Come, solemn Night, and spread thy pall
Wide o’er slumbering shore and sea,
And hang along thy vaulted hall
The star-lights of eternity;
Thy beacons beautiful and bright—
Isles in an ocean of the blest—
That guide the parted spirit’s flight
Unto the land of rest.

Come— for the evening glories fade,
Quenched in ocean’s depths profound;
Come with thy solitude and shade,
Thy silence and thy sound;
Awake the deep and lonely lay
From wood and stream, of saddening tone;
The harmonies unheard by day,
The music all thine own!