Parting gleams (Arthur Sullivan)

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• (Posted 2023-12-12)  CPDL #78145:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 383 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2019-07-26)  CPDL #54896:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-07-26).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 100 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up a major 3rd to F.

• (Posted 2019-07-26)  CPDL #54895:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-07-26).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 100 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: In original key.

General Information

Title: Parting gleams
Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Lyricist: Aubrey Thomas de Vere

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard

First published: 1872 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 5, no. 154
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Original text and translations

English text

The lights on yonder snowy range
Shine yet intense and tender;
Or, slowly passing, only change
From splendour on to splendour.
Before the dying hour of day
Immortal visions wander;
Dreams prescient of a purer ray,
And morns spread still beyond her.

Lo! Heavenward now those gleams aspire
In heavenly melancholy;
The barrier mountains, peak and spire,
Relinquishing them slowly.
Thus shine, O God, our mortal powers,
While grief and snow refine them,
And when in death they fade, be ours
Thus gently to resign them.