The Nightingale (Charles Nixon)

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• (Posted 2023-11-21)  CPDL #77524:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-21).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 482 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Nightingale
Composer: Charles Nixon
Lyricist: Sarah Louisa Moore^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1898 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

O sing, sweet songster of the shady night!
The crimson slowly fadeth in the west;
Sing ere the moon doth show her silvery light;
I long to hear the tumults of thy breast.

O sing, sweet songster, while the forest trees
Grow blacker still beneath the sunset glow;
O warble fondly to the evening breeze
While murmuring rivers shall more softly flow!

O sing, sweet songster, in thy leafy bower;
Come choose thy throne in lofty fir or oak;
Break thou the silence of this pensive hour,
And to thy praise the echoes now provoke.

O sing, sweet songster, for the gentle dove
Has ceased in sombre woods its mournful wail;
Thou hast no grief,— thy strains are all of love;
Pour forth in song to us thy joyous tale.

O sing, sweet songster, for thy rival thrush
Has long since sought his home in shady tree,
And nature now maintains a quiet hush,
And listens patiently, dear bird, for thee.

O sing, sweet songster,— why so tardy grown?
Come out from lonely copse and deeper dell;
Come ere the owl his night-watch keeps alone;
O come, sweet bird, we love thy music well.