Moonlight (Joseph Eaton Faning)

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• (Posted 2023-10-12)  CPDL #76302:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-12).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 673 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2021-01-27)  CPDL #62538:         

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2021-01-27).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 140 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Moonlight
Composer: Joseph Eaton Faning
Lyricist: Frederic Edward Weatherly

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, minor B divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1886 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

The night is still and holy,
The waters softly flow,
Across the dark, the dark horizon
The magic moon swims low;

And it seems to the eyes that are gazing
Wistfully over the sea,
Like a silver path that is leading
To where the heart would be.

And ever a song is rising
Out of the tranced waves;
it is the mermaids singing,
Down in their crystal caves,

A strange and beautiful music,
Tender and sweet, and low,
A song that the heart hears only
In the voice, the voice of the long ago?

Shine on, shine on, O magic moonlight,
Across the water's flow,
And sing, and sing, ye sweet mermaidens,
Your song, your song, of long ago.

And the heart shall forget its sorrow,
Sad eyes no longer, no longer weep
As the past returns, and our dreams come true,
In the beautiful land of sleep.