How dear to me the hour (Alicia Adelaide Needham)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-21). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 425 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: How dear to me the hour
Composer: Alicia Adelaide Needham
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1900 Novello and Co.'
Description: Irish Air: FEIS CEOIL
Prize arrangement at the 1900 Irish Music Festival
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Original text and translations
English text
How dear to me the hour when daylight dies,
And sunbeams melt along the silent sea,
For then sweet dreams of other days arise,
And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee.
And, as I watch the line of light, that plays
Along the smooth wave toward the burning west,
I long to tread that golden path of rays,
And think ’twould lead to some bright isle of rest.