Bright star of eve (Charles Gounod)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-11). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 513 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Bright star of eve
Composer: Charles Gounod
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SATB.SATB, divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1872 in Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, Goddard & Co., London, Volume 1, no. 4
Description: Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society of 1872, No.4
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Original text and translations
English text
Bright star of eve, that sendest thy softening ray,
Through the dim twilight of this nether sky,
I hail thy beam like rising of the day!
Hast thou a home for me when I shall die?
Is there a spot within thy radiant sphere,
Where love, and faith, and truth again may dwell,
Where I may seek the rest I find not here,
And clasp the cherished forms I loved so well?