Softly the Moonlight (Frederick Iliffe)

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• (Posted 2023-11-01)  CPDL #76868:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-01).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 416 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Softly the Moonlight
Composer: Frederick Iliffe
Lyricist: Felicia Hemans
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1894 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Softly the moonlight is shed on the lake,
Cool is the summer night, Wake! O awake!
Faintly the curfew is heard from afar,
List ye! O list to the lively guitar.

The maid from her lattice looks down on the lake,
To see the foam sparkle, the bright billows break,
And to hear in his boat where he shines like a star,
Her lover so tenderly touch his guitar.

The moonlight is hid in a vapour of snow,
Her voice and his rebeck alternately flow,
Re-echoed they swell from the rock on the hill,
They sing their farewell, and the music is still.