How soft the shades (Charles King Hall)

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• (Posted 2023-10-24)  CPDL #76579:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-24).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 429 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: How soft the shades
Composer: Charles King Hall
Lyricist: Reginald Heber
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1896 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

How soft the shades of evening creep
    O’er yonder dewy lea,
Where balmy winds have lull’d to sleep
    The tenants of the tree.
No wandering breeze is here to sweep,
In shadowy ripple o’er the deep,
Yet swells the heaving sea!

How calm the sky! rest, ocean, rest,
    From storm and ruffle free,
Calm as the image on thy breast
    Of her that governs thee!
And yet beneath the moon’s mild reign
Thy broad breast heaves as one in pain,
Thou dark and silent sea.

There are whom fortune vainly woos
    With all her pageantry,
Whom every flattering bliss pursues,
    Yet still they fare like thee;
The spell is laid within their mind,
Least wretched then when most resigned,
Their hearts throb silently!