Evening Song (Mary Grant Carmichael)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 774 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Evening Song
Composer: Mary Grant Carmichael
Lyricist: Agnes B. Atkinsoncreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1887 J. & J. Hopkinson
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Original text and translations
English text
When in the westerly Heaven over the mountains with purple enwrapt,
The sun sinketh down.
Panteth the breast joyfully free, and seeketh rejoicing,
The cool delicious wind of evening.
Calmer now is the spirit, a tranquil bright becalmed sea
Spreads far and wide.
Swanlike float winged memories thither,
Thither across the soft waters float.
Quiet sinketh upon me from Heaven.
Over the tired eyes fall softly the eyelids.
And in wondrous visions of night I gather loveliest blossoms of slumber;
Sweet slumber’s loveliest blossoms and golden fruit of dreams.
English “imitation” of Emanuel von Geibel