The Nights (Frederick A. Challinor)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 674 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Nights
Composer: Frederick A. Challinor
Lyricist: Bryan Procter
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1910 Bayley & Ferguson
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Original text and translations
English text
Oh, the Summer Night
Has a smile of light,
And she sits on a sapphire throne;
Whilst the sweet Winds clothe her
With garlands of odour,
From the bud to the rose o’er-blown!
But the Autumn Night
Has a piercing sight,
And a step both strong and free;
And a voice for wonder,
Like the wrath of the Thunder,
When he shouts to the stormy sea!
And the Winter Night
Is all cold and white.
And she singeth a song of pain;
Till the wild bee hummeth,
And the warm Spring cometh,
When she dies in a dream of rain!
Oh, the Night brings sleep
To the green woods deep;
To the bird of the woods its nest;
To Care soft hours;
To life new powers;
To the sick and the weary,—Rest!