Long, long the Night (Daniel Gregory Mason)

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• (Posted 2023-11-15)  CPDL #77373:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-15).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 598 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Long, long the Night
Composer: Daniel Gregory Mason
Lyricist: Robert Burns
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1918 H. W. Gray Co.
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English text

Long, long the night,
Heavy comes the morrow
While my soul’s delight
Is on her bed of sorrow.

Can I cease to care?
Can I cease to languish,
While my darling Fair
Is on the couch of anguish?

Ev’ry hope is fled,
Ev’ry fear is terror,
Slumber ev’n I dread,
Ev’ry dream is horror.

Hear me, Powers Divine!
Oh, in pity, hear me!
Take aught else of mine,
But my Chloris spare me!