The silent land (Alfred Robert Gaul)
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- (Posted 2023-10-18) CPDL #76457:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-18). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 530 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The silent land
Composer: Alfred Robert Gaul
Lyricist: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB, minor SA divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1920 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Into the Silent Land!
Ah! who shall lead us thither!
Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather,
And shattered wrecks lie on the strand.
Who leads us with a gentle hand
Thither, O thither,
Into the Silent Land?
Into the Silent Land!
To you, ye boundless regions
Of all perfection! Tender morning visions
Of beauteous souls! The Future’s pledge and band!
Who in Life’s battle firm doth stand,
Shall bear Hope’s tender blossoms,
Into the Silent Land!
O Land! O Land!
For all the brokenhearted,
The mildest herald by our fate allotted,
Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand,
To lead us with a gentle hand
Into the land of the great departed,
Into the Silent Land!
From the German of Johann Gaudenz Gubert Graf von Salis-Seewis (1762–1834)