The tide rises, the tide falls (Julius Engelbert Röntgen)

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• (Posted 2023-12-04)  CPDL #77818:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-04).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 328 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The tide rises, the tide falls
Composer: Julius Engelbert Röntgen
Lyricist: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1923 Silver, Burdett and Company
Description: Commissioned for a collection of part-songs published in the United States for use by school choirs.

Original text and translations

English text

The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveler hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea in the darkness calls and calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveler to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.