At the mid hour of night (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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(Posted 2024-03-07) CPDL #79436:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-07). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 503 kB Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

(Posted 2012-04-14) CPDL #25959: (Sibelius 6)

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2012-04-14). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 38 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original score had a piano reduction which has been removed in this edition.

General Information

Title: At the mid hour of night
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1901 Boosey & Co.
Description: Six Irish Folksongs, Op. 78, No. 3

AIR: MOLLY MY DEAR

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Original text and translations

English text

At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly
To the lone vale we loved, when life shone warm in thine eye;
And I think oft, if spirits can steal from the regions of air
To revisit past scenes of delight, thou wilt come to me there,
And tell me our love is remember'd even in the sky.
Then I sing the wild song it once was rapture to hear,
When our voices commingling breathed like one on the ear;
And as Echo far off through the vale my sad orison rolls,
I think, O my love! 'tis thy voice from the Kingdom of Souls
Faintly answering still the notes that once were so dear.