At twilight hour (Edward Roberts)

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• (Posted 2024-06-23)  CPDL #81016:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-06-23).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 304 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: At twilight hour
Composers: Edward Roberts and John Paul Morgan
Lyricist:
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 F.

Original text and translations

English text

The ruddy sun has ceased to glow,
The day in peace declines,
And birds were nestled long ago,
Within the sheltering vines.

Their fragrant breath the night wind steals
From many a closing flower;
And everything in nature feels
The charms of twilight hour.

At such a time how near us seem
The days that once we knew,
As in the twilight hush we dream,
And all our past renew.

The songs that echo through the glade
Are from far distant bower,
And thoughts of love a-lone pervade
The heart at twilight hour.