The Shower, Op. 71, No. 1 (Edward Elgar)

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Editor: Robin Doveton (added 2008-01-24).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 156 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: No piano reduction.
Editor: Robert Nottingham (added 2007-02-21).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 70 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Piano reduction included for rehearsal only. Sibelius file zipped.

General Information

Title: The Shower, Op. 71, No. 1
Composer: Edward Elgar

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Partsongs

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1914

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Original text and translations

Image:English.png English text

Cloud, if as thou dost melt, and with thy train
Of drops make soft the Earth, my eyes could weep
O'er my hard heart, that's bound up and asleep;
Perhaps at last,
Some such showers past,
My God would give a sunshine after rain.

Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)

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