The Shower, Op. 71, No. 1 (Edward Elgar)

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• CPDL #32368:     

Editor: Peter Rottländer (submitted 2014-06-30).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 100 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Editor: Robin Doveton (submitted 2008-01-24).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 156 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #13628:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: Robert Nottingham (submitted 2007-02-21).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 70 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

General Information

Title: The Shower, Op. 71, No. 1
Composer: Edward Elgar
Lyricist: Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1914

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Original text and translations

English text

Cloud, if as thou dost melt, and with thy train
Of drops make soft the Earth, my eyes could weep
O'er my hard heart, that's bound up and asleep;
Perhaps at last,
Some such showers past,
My God would give a sunshine after rain.