Evening clouds (Robert Henry Waithman)

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• (Posted 2023-12-14)  CPDL #78227:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-14).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 252 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Evening clouds
Composer: Robert Henry Waithman
Lyricists: Ludwig Uhland, translated Walter William Skeat
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1871 Weippert & Co.
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English text

Clouds I see at evening’s hour
Tinged with sunset’s loveliest glow,
Clouds as bright as gleaming snow
That but now were dark and grim;
Yes! my heart’s prophetic power
Tells me that— tho’ late its light
Comes the sunset, rendering bright
Mists that now my soul bedim.