How dear to me the hour (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-07)  CPDL #79426:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-07).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 500 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: How dear to me the hour
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1922 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: Six Irish Airs (2)

AIR: THE TWISTING OF THE ROPE

Original text and translations

English text

How dear to me the hour when daylight dies,
And sunbeams melt along the silent sea.
For then sweet dreams of other days arise,
And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee.

And as I watch the line of light that plays
Along the smooth wave toward the burning west,
I long to tread that golden path of rays
And think ’twould lead to some bright isle of rest.