The Moon (Jeremy Rawson)

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• (Posted 2022-04-04)  CPDL #68733: 

Editor: Jeremy Rawson (submitted 2022-04-04).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 136 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Moon
Composer: Jeremy Rawson
Lyricist: Robert Louis Stevenson
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2022
Description: A setting for SAB (unaccompanied) of R L Stevenson's poem, composed for the Polish National Forum for Music.

Original text and translations

English text

The Moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
On streets and fields and harbour quays,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.

The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
The howling dog by the door of the house,
The bat that lies in bed at noon,
All love to be out by the light of the moon.

But all of the things that belong to the day,
Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way;
And flowers and children close their eyes
Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.