The evening primrose (Jens Klimek)

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• (Posted 2012-11-28)  CPDL #27667:       

Editor: Jens Klimek (submitted 2012-11-28).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 82 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Evening Primrose
Composer: Jens Klimek

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SMATBarB
Genre: Secular, Unknown

Language: English
Instruments: unknown

First published: 2012
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

When once the sun sinks in the west,
And dew-drops pearl the evening's breast;
Almost as pale as moonbeams are,
Or its companionable star,
The evening primrose opes anew
Its delicate blossoms to the dew
And hermit-like, shunning the light,
Wastes its fair bloom upon the night;
Who, blindfold to its fond caresses,
Knows not the beauty he possesses.
Thus it blooms on while night is by.
When day looks out with open eye,
Bashed at the gaze it cannot shun,
It faints and withers and is gone.