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*{{PostedDate|2020-10-21}} {{CPDLno|60968}} [[Media:HolstTheEveningWatch.pdf|{{pdf}}]] | *{{PostedDate|2020-10-21}} {{CPDLno|60968}} [[Media:HolstTheEveningWatch.pdf|{{pdf}}]] | ||
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:'''Edition notes:''' Edited using Holst's MS in The British Library, viewable online | :'''Edition notes:''' Edited using Holst's MS in The British Library, viewable online as below. The composer's piano reduction is here omitted. | ||
The composer's piano reduction | |||
==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
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'''Description:''' | '''Description:''' | ||
'''External websites:''' | '''External websites:''' http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_57880_fs001r | ||
==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
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BODY: | |||
Farewell! I go to sleep; but when | |||
The day-star springs, I’ll wake again. | |||
SOUL: | |||
Go, sleep in peace; and when thou liest | |||
Unnumber’d in thy dust, when all this frame | |||
Is but one dram, and what thou now descriest | |||
In sev’ral parts shall want a name, | |||
Then may his peace be with thee, and each dust | |||
Writ in his book, who ne’er betray’d man’s trust! | |||
BODY: | |||
Amen! but hark, ere we two stray | |||
How many hours dost think ’till day? | |||
SOUL: | |||
Ah go; th’art weak, and sleepy. Heav’n | |||
Is a plain watch, and without figures winds | |||
All ages up; who drew this circle, even | |||
He fills it; days and hours are blinds. | |||
Yet this take with thee. The last gasp of time | |||
Is thy first breath, and man’s eternal prime. | |||
}} | |||
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- Editor: Robin Doveton (submitted 2020-10-21). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 359 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Edited using Holst's MS in The British Library, viewable online as below. The composer's piano reduction is here omitted.
General Information
Title: The Evening-Watch
Composer: Gustav Holst
Lyricist: Henry Vaughan
Number of voices: 9vv Voicing: SSSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1925
Description:
External websites: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_57880_fs001r
Original text and translations
English text
BODY:
Farewell! I go to sleep; but when
The day-star springs, I’ll wake again.
SOUL:
Go, sleep in peace; and when thou liest
Unnumber’d in thy dust, when all this frame
Is but one dram, and what thou now descriest
In sev’ral parts shall want a name,
Then may his peace be with thee, and each dust
Writ in his book, who ne’er betray’d man’s trust!
BODY:
Amen! but hark, ere we two stray
How many hours dost think ’till day?
SOUL:
Ah go; th’art weak, and sleepy. Heav’n
Is a plain watch, and without figures winds
All ages up; who drew this circle, even
He fills it; days and hours are blinds.
Yet this take with thee. The last gasp of time
Is thy first breath, and man’s eternal prime.