The Nights (Frederick A. Challinor)

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• (Posted 2023-10-02)  CPDL #75970:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 674 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Nights
Composer: Frederick A. Challinor
Lyricist: Bryan Procter
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1910 Bayley & Ferguson
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Oh, the Summer Night
    Has a smile of light,
And she sits on a sapphire throne;
    Whilst the sweet Winds clothe her
    With garlands of odour,
From the bud to the rose o’er-blown!

But the Autumn Night
    Has a piercing sight,
And a step both strong and free;
    And a voice for wonder,
    Like the wrath of the Thunder,
When he shouts to the stormy sea!

And the Winter Night
    Is all cold and white.
And she singeth a song of pain;
    Till the wild bee hummeth,
    And the warm Spring cometh,
When she dies in a dream of rain!

Oh, the Night brings sleep
    To the green woods deep;
To the bird of the woods its nest;
    To Care soft hours;
    To life new powers;
To the sick and the weary,—Rest!