When sinks the sun (Edward Roberts)

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• (Posted 2024-06-25)  CPDL #81039:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-06-25).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 300 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: When sinks the sun
Composers: Edward Roberts and John Paul Morgan
Lyricist: Gertrude Howard^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1868 F. J. Huntington & Co.
Description: This piece appears in “The Tonart” (1868), written by Edward Roberts and John Paul Morgan. The publication did not specify an individual composer.
Exercise for the key of g minor.

Original text and translations

English text

When sinks the sun adown the west,
And marks the hour of earth’s repose,
Calmly the spirit sinks to rest,
In slumbers soft the eye-lids close.

And when our little day is done,
When night’s dark shadows ’round us creep,
May we whose earthly race is run,
Like wearied children, fall asleep.