The spirit’s lullaby (Howard Kingsbury)

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•  Posted on 2024-04-26(Posted 2024-04-26)  CPDL #80409:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 370 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The spirit’s lullaby
Composer: Howard Kingsbury
Lyricist: James Gates Percival
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Taintor Brothers
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Original text and translations

English text

When the night is still,
On the moon-lit hill
    We sink in soft repose;
While the cool winds sigh,
And the rivulet nigh
    In mellow music flows.
Then, as in dreams we float in light along,
Sweet round us breathes from Heaven a cradle song:
Slumber! slumber! Angels watch you nigh.
Slumber! slumber! Spirits, gathering by,
Sing their lullaby.

Hushed to slumber deep,
Softly then we sleep,
    And happy is our dream:
Forms of beauty rare
Float along the air;
    Their eyes how kindly beam.
Then, as we listen, harps around us play;
Gentlest of voices bid us come away:
Hither, hither, where the heavens are bright,—
Hither, hither, to this world of light,—
Hither take your flight.