Bright star of eve (Charles Gounod)

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• (Posted 2023-10-11)  CPDL #76238:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-11).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 513 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Bright star of eve
Composer: Charles Gounod
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB.SATB, divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 in Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, Goddard & Co., London, Volume 1, no. 4
Description: Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society of 1872, No.4

Original text and translations

English text

Bright star of eve, that sendest thy softening ray,
Through the dim twilight of this nether sky,
I hail thy beam like rising of the day!
Hast thou a home for me when I shall die?

Is there a spot within thy radiant sphere,
Where love, and faith, and truth again may dwell,
Where I may seek the rest I find not here,
And clasp the cherished forms I loved so well?