Voice of the Western Wind (John Bunyan Herbert)

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• (Posted 2023-10-26)  CPDL #76725:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 437 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Voice of the Western Wind
Composer: John Bunyan Herbert
Lyricist: Edmund Clarence Stedman
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1877 W. W. Whitney
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Original text and translations

English text

Voice of the western wind!
Thou singest from afar,
Rich with the music of a land
Where all my memories are;
But in thy song I only hear
The echo of a tone
That fell divinely on my ear
In days forever flown.

Star of the western sky!
Thou beamest from afar,
With lustre caught from eyes I knew
Whose orbs were each a star;
But, oh, those orbs– too wildly bright–
No more eclipse thine own,
And never shall I find the light
Of days forever flown!