Sabbath evening twilight (George J. Webb)

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• (Posted 2024-02-22)  CPDL #79232:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-22).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 411 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Sabbath evening twilight
Composer: George J. Webb
Lyricist: William Cutter
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Hymn

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1850 Mason & Law
Description: Although the text is somewhat devotional in nature, this song was not specifically sacred nor church music.

Original text and translations

English text

Delightful hour of sweet repose,
Of hallowed thoughts, of love, of prayer!
I love thy deep and tranquil close,
    For all the sabbath-day is there.
Each pure desire, each high request
    That burned before the temple shrine—
The hopes, the fears, that moved the breast—
    All live again in light like thine.

I love thee for the fervid glow
    Thou shed’st around the closing day—
Those golden fires, those wreaths of snow,
    That light and pave his glorious way!
Through them, I’ve sometimes thought, the eye
    May pierce the unmeasured deeps of space,
And track the course where spirits fly,
    On viewless wings, to realms of bliss.

I love thee for the unbroken calm,
    That slumbers on this fading scene,
And throws its kind and soothing charm
    O’er “all the little world within.”
It trances every roving thought,
    Yet sets the soaring fancy free—
Shuts from the soul the present out,
    That all is musing memory.