When the sun sinks to rest (John Frederick Bridge)

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• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75809:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 337 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: When the sun sinks to rest
Composer: John Frederick Bridge
Lyricist: Samuel Lover
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1866 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

I
When the sun sinks to rest,
And the star of the west
Sheds its soft silver light o’er the sea;
What sweet thoughts arise,
As the dim twilight dies--
For then I am thinking of thee!
Oh! then crowding fast
Come the joys of the past,
Through the dimness of days long gone by,
Like the stars peeping out,
Through the darkness about,
From the soft silent depth of the sky.

II
And thus, as the night
Grows more lovely and bright
With the clust’ring of planet and star,
So this darkness of mine
Wins a radiance divine
From the light that still lingers afar.
Then welcome the night,
With its soft holy light!
In its silence my heart is more free
The rude world to forget,
Where no pleasure I’ve met
Since the hour that I parted from thee.