How calmly the evening (Edward Elgar)
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CPDL #13627: Sibelius 4
- Editor: Robert Nottingham (added 2007-02-21). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 92 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Piano reduction included for rehearsal only. Sibelius file zipped.
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General Information
Title: How calmly the evening
Composer: Edward Elgar
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Partsongs
Language: English
Instruments: none, a capella
Published: 1907
Description:
External websites: http://www.robertnottingham.com
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Original text and translations
English text
- How calmly the evening once more is descending,
- As kind as a promise, as still as a prayer;
- O wing of the Lord, in Thy shelter befriending,
- May we and our households continue to share.
- We come to be soothed with Thy merciful healing;
- The dews of the night cure the wounds of the day;
- We come, our life's work and its brevity feeling,
- With thanks for the past, for the future we pray.
- Lord, save us from folly; be with us in sorrow;
- Sustain us in work till the time of our rest;
- When earth's day is over, may heaven's tomorrow
- Dawn on us, of homes long expected possest.
Thomas Toke Lynch (1818-1871)
