The splendour falls on castle walls (Ernest Walker)

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• (Posted 2023-12-14)  CPDL #78231:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-14).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 666 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The splendour falls on castle walls
Composer: Ernest Walker
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 Stainer & Bell
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elf-land faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

from The Princess