May Eve (Amy Beach)

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• (Posted 2023-09-20)  CPDL #75562:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-20).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 598 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: May Eve
Composer: Amy Beach
Lyricist: Thomas S. Jones
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1923 Silver, Burdett and Company
Description: Op. 86?

Original text and translations

English text

Over the hill, over the hill,
    The dews are wet and the shadows long;
Twilight lingers and all is still
    Save for the call of a faery-song.

Calling, calling out of the west,
    Over the hill in the dusk of day,
Over the hill to a land of rest,
    A land of peace with the world away.

Never again where grasses sweep,
    And lights are low, and the cool brakes still—
Never a song, but a dreamless sleep,
    Over the hill . . . over the hill.