Midnight wind (Howard Kingsbury)

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•  Posted on 2024-05-01(Posted 2024-05-01)  CPDL #80461:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-01).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 353 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Midnight wind
Composer: Howard Kingsbury
Lyricist: William Motherwell
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

Mournfully, oh, mournfully
      This midnight wind doth sigh,
    Like some sweet plaintive melody
      Of ages long gone by:
    It speaks a tale of other years—
      Of hopes that bloom’d to die—
    Of sunny smiles that set in tears,
      And loves that mouldering lie.

    Mournfully, oh, mournfully
      This midnight wind doth moan;
    It stirs some chord of memory,
      In each dull heavy tone:
    The voices of the much-loved dead
      Seem floating thereupon—
    All, all my fond heart cherished,
      Ere death hath made it lone.

    Mournfully, oh, mournfully
      This midnight wind doth swell,
    With its quaint pensive minstrelsy,
      Hope’s passionate farewell.
    To the dreamy joys of early years,
      Ere yet grief’s canker fell
    On the heart’s bloom—ay, well may tears
      Start at that parting knell!