The stormy evening (George Whitefield Chadwick)

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(Posted 2023-10-02) CPDL #75965:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 507 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Stormy Evening
Composer: George Whitefield Chadwick
Lyricist: Robert Louis Stevenson
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1901 C. C. Birchard & Company
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Original text and translations

English text

The stormy evening closes now in vain,
Loud wails the wind and beats the driving rain,
     While here in sheltered house
     With fire-ypainted walls,
     I hear the wind abroad,
     I hark the calling squalls—
“Blow, blow,” I cry, “you burst your cheeks in vain!
Blow, blow,” I cry, “my love is home again!”

Yon ship you chase perchance but yesternight
Bore still the precious freight of my delight,
     That here in sheltered house
     With fire-ypainted walls,
     Now hears the wind abroad,
     Now harks the calling squalls.
“Blow, blow,” I cry, “in vain you rouse the sea,
My rescued sailor shares the fire with me!”