Night, sable goddess! (Walter Cecil Macfarren)

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(Posted 2023-11-13) CPDL #77274:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-13). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 364 kB Copyright: Personal

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(Posted 2019-11-13) CPDL #55891:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-11-13). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 101 kB Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Night, sable goddess!
Composer: Walter Cecil Macfarren
Lyricist: Edward Young

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard

First published: 1876 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 9, no. 281
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Original text and translations

English text

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
Silence how dead! and darkness how profound!
Nor eye, nor listening ear an object finds;
Creation sleeps and Nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end.