The Rainbow (Henry David Leslie)

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• (Posted 2023-11-09)  CPDL #77143:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-09).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 478 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Rainbow
Composer: Henry David Leslie
Lyricist: John Samuel Bewley Monsell
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.
Description: Four Part Songs for Mixed Voices, No. 2

Original text and translations

English text

With glorious wings of golden light
The angels cleave the sky,
In jewell’d robes as rich and bright
I bend to teach from high:
They to and fro unwearied flit
In quests that never cease,
I on the storm-clouds love to sit
And talk to men of Peace.

And now I come, and now I go
When skies are dark and drear,
Where winds are high, and clouds arc low,
And men want words of cheer:
While sorrow lives, my promise gives
The hope that it shall die;
When sorrow dies, then I arise,
And melt into the sky.