Now night her dusky mantle folds (Samuel Reay)

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• (Posted 2022-02-19)  CPDL #68095:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-02-19).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 245 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Now night her dusky mantle folds
Composer: Samuel Reay
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1880 The Orpheus (New series) no.44
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Original text and translations

English text

Now night her dusky mantle folds,
The larks are soaring high,
And morn her golden beams has shot,
To gild the eastern sky.
We sportsmen scour the distant plains,
The hounds pursue their prey;
While echoes round the valleys sound,
Hark forward, hark away.

O'er mountain top, and river deep,
The fox for shelter flies,
And cowering into coverts strong,
His cunning vainly tries.
His death proclaims the sportsman's joy,
The dogs they seize their prey;
While echoes round the valleys sound,
Hark forward, hark away.