The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Henry Holden Huss)

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  • (Posted 2023-10-31)  CPDL #76857:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-31).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 203 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Composer: Henry Holden Huss
Lyricist: Francis William Bourdillon
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1915 Silver, Burdett and Company
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Original text and translations

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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the setting sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.