When lengthening shades (William Woolley)

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• (Posted 2023-12-19)  CPDL #78353:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-19).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 557 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: When lengthening shades
Composer: William Woolley
Lyricist: J. W. Kirby^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1899 J. Curwen & Sons
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English text

How oft, when the lengthening shades of night
Do close the day’s bright eye;
How oft, when the twilight’s mellow glow
Sheds rest and beauty far and nigh;
The lengthening shades, the twilight’s glow
That spreads o’er land and sky,
How oft doth their peaceful charms so pure
Draw from some heart a sigh.

A sigh for the golden days of yore,
When life was one sweet song;
A sigh for the memories full of joy,
That now have vanished, oh, so long;
The golden days, the memories sweet,
Once more shall breathe again,
And oft shall the soothing sigh of peace
Be then the calm refrain.