Parting gleams (Arthur Sullivan)
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- (Posted 2019-07-26) CPDL #54896:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-07-26). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 100 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed up a major 3rd to F. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- (Posted 2019-07-26) CPDL #54895:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-07-26). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 100 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: In original key. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Parting gleams
Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Lyricist: Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: 1875 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 5, no. 154
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Original text and translations
English text
The lights on yonder snowy range
Shine yet intense and tender;
Or, slowly passing, only change
From splendour on to splendour.
Before the dying hour of day
Immortal visions wander;
Dreams prescient of a purer ray,
And morns spread still beyond her.
Lo! Heavenward now those gleams aspire
In heavenly melancholy;
The barrier mountains, peak and spire,
Relinquishing them slowly.
Thus shine, O God, our mortal powers,
While grief and snow refine them,
And when in death they fade, be ours
Thus gently to resign them.