Twelve O’clock (Ossian E. Dodge)

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• (Posted 2023-10-06)  CPDL #76093:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 378 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Twelve O’clock
Composer: Ossian E. Dodge
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1885 Oliver Ditson & Co.
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English text

As I sit, my lone watch keeping,
By the fever-haunted bed,
Comes the solemn midnight, creeping,
Creeping on with silent tread;
With its weird and magic power
Giving all my soul a shock,
Comes a solitary hour,
Twelve o’clock, twelve o’clock.

’Tis the hour most sad and dreary
To the sick and aching head,
’Tis the time most dread and weary
To the watcher by the bed.
Every murmur round me sighing,
Seems my hope of life to mock,
As this mystic hour is flying,
Twelve o’clock, twelve o’clock.

Hush! thou night wind wailing lowly,
Making all my pulses thrill!
Hush! I feel a presence holy
Touch my heart with sudden chill;
And I know that death is stealing
One more lamb from out our flock,
While the last faint stroke is pealing,
Twelve o’clock, twelve o’clock.