The Infinite shining heavens (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-06-08).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 164 kbytes    Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central.

General Information

Title: The Infinite Shining Heavens
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: Robert Louis Stevenson

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Baritone Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1907

Description: "The Infinite Shining Heavens" is Number 6 in the set of nine songs called "Songs of Travel".

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Original text and translations

English text

The infinite shining heavens

Rose, and I saw in the night

Uncountable angel stars

Showering sorrow and light.

I saw them distant as heaven,

Dumb and shining and dead,

And the idle stars of the night

Were dearer to me than bread.

Night after night in my sorrow

The stars looked over the sea,

Till lo! I looked in the dusk

And a star had come down to me.