Sweet evening hour (Samuel Reay)

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• (Posted 2023-12-01)  CPDL #77745:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-01).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 591 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2020-07-17)  CPDL #59770:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-07-17).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 141 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: Sweet evening hour
Composer: Samuel Reay
Lyricist: Henry Francis Lyte

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1885 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 18, no. 516
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Original text and translations

English text

Sweet evening hour, sweet evening hour,
That calms the air and shuts the flower,
That brings the wild bee to its nest,
And lays the weary down to rest.
O season of soft sounds and hues,
Of twilight walks among the dews,
Of feelings calm and converse sweet,
And thoughts too shadowy to repeat.

The weary soul that loathes the day
Finds peace beneath thy soothing sway,
And trembling through the dewy skies,
Look out the stars with thoughtful eyes.
Let others hail the rising day,
I praise it when it fades away,
When the toil and heat of day are done,
And we bear to gaze at the parting sun.