Soldier, rest op.54.4 (Oliver Arthur King)

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• (Posted 2023-11-06)  CPDL #76975:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-06).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 606 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: SATB version

• (Posted 2022-03-10)  CPDL #68312:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-03-10).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 264 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: TTBB version

General Information

Title: Soldier, rest op.54.4
Composer: Oliver Arthur King
Lyricist: Walter Scott
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SATB or TTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Instruments: Piano

First published: 1889 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
    2nd published: 1890 The Orpheus (New series) no.214
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Original text and translations

English text

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;
Dream of battled fields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking.
In our isle’s enchanted hall,
Hands unseen thy couch are strewing,
Fairy strains of music fall,
Every sense in slumber dewing.
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er,
Dream of fighting fields no more;
Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.

No rude sound shall reach thine ear,
Armour’s clang, or war-steed champing,
Trump nor pibroch summon here
Mustering clan or squadron tramping.
Yet the lark’s shrill fife may come
At the daybreak from the fallow,
And the bittern sound his drum,
Booming from the [sedgy] shallow.
Ruder sounds shall none be near,
Guards nor warders challenge here,
Here’s no war-steed’s neigh and champing,
Shouting clans or squadrons stamping.

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er,
Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.