Nightfall in Winter (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-4-3). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 60 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 60 KB, MIDI: 10 KB, Sib4: 43 KB.
General Information
Title: Nightfall in Winter
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Langdon Elwyn Mitchell - (1862-1935)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1907
Description: Number 2 of C. H. H. Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 8. Lyrics by the poet Langdon Elwyn Mitchell - (1862-1935).
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Original text and translations
English text
- Cold is the air,
- The woods are bare
- And brown; the herd
- Stand in the yard.
- The frost doth fall;
- And round the hill
- The hares move slow;
- The homeward crow,
- Alone and high,
- Crosses the sky
- All silently.
- The quick streams freeze;
- The moving trees
- Are still; for now
- No breeze will blow:
- The wind has gone
- With the day, down,
- And clouds are come
- Bearing the gloom.
- The yellow grass
- In the clear glass
- Of the bright pool
- Grows soft and dull.
- The water's eye
- That held the sky
- Now glazes quite;
- And now the light
- On the cold hill
- Fadeth, until
- The giant mass
- Doth seem to pass
- From near to far;
- The clouds obscure
- The sky with gloom:
- The night is come,
- The night is come.
- Lyrics: Langdon Elwyn Mitchell - (1862-1935)