Hymn to the night (Henry Ernest Nichol)

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• (Posted 2023-11-21)  CPDL #77515:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-21).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 426 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Hymn to the night
Composer: Henry Ernest Nichol
Lyricist: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1898 J. Fischer & Bro.
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Original text and translations

English text

I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!

I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight,
The manifold, soft chimes,
That fill the haunted chambers of the Night,
Like some old poet’s rhymes.

I felt her presence, by its spell of might,
Stoop o’er me from above;
The calm, majestic presence of the Night,
As of the one I love.

From the cool cisterns of the midnight air
My spirit drank repose;
The fountain of perpetual peace flows there,—
From those deep cisterns flows.

O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear
What man has borne before!
Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care,
And they complain no more.