Dream Tryst (Gustav Holst)

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  • (Posted 2023-11-02)  CPDL #76911:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-02).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 499 kB   Copyright: Personal
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  • (Posted 2019-08-23)  CPDL #55126:     
Editor: Jan Wilke (submitted 2019-08-23).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Dream Tryst
Composer: Gustav Holst
Lyricist: Francis Thompson

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1902 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English.png English text

The breaths of kissing night and day
Were mingled in the eastern Heaven:
Throbbing with unheard melody
Shook Lyra all its star-chord seven:
When dusk shrunk cold, and light trod shy,
And dawn’s gray eyes were troubled gray;
And souls went palely up the sky,
And mine to Lucidé.

There was no change in her sweet eyes
Since last I saw those sweet eyes shine;
There was no change in her deep heart
Since last that deep heart knocked at mine.
Her eyes were clear, her eyes were Hope’s,
Wherein did ever come and go
The sparkle of the fountain-drops
From her sweet soul below.

The chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air
That Time’s hoar wings grow young therein,
And they who walk there are most fair.
I joyed for me, I joyed for her,
Who with the Past meet girt about:
Where our last kiss still warms the air,
Nor can her eyes go out.