I saw the moon rise clear (Alfred Robert Gaul)

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• (Posted 2023-10-18)  CPDL #76456:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 496 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: I saw the Moon rise clear
Composer: Alfred Robert Gaul
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1864 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

FINLAND LOVE SONG

I saw the moon rise clear
O’er hills and dales of snow,
Nor told my fleet reindeer
The way I wish’d to go;
But quick he bounded forth,
For well my reindeer knew,
I’ve but one path on earth—
That path which leads to you.
The gloom that winter cast,
How soon the heart forgets,
When summer brings, at last,
Her sun that never sets,
So dawn’d my love for you,
And chasing ev’ry pain,
Than summer sun more true,
’Twill never set again.