I think on thee (Cuthbert Harris)

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  • (Posted 2023-10-24)  CPDL #76600:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-24).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 686 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: I think on thee
Composer: Cuthbert Harris
Lyricist: Thomas Kibble Hervey
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

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I think on thee in the night,
When all beside is still,
And the moon comes out, with her pale, sad light,
To sit on the lonely hill;
When the stars are all like dreams,
And the breezes all like sighs,
And there comes a voice from the far-off streams
Like thy spirit’s low replies.

I think on thee in the day,
Where throngs the busy crowd,
Where the merry laugh of the young and gay
Is far too glad and loud!
Yet I hear thy soft, sad tone,
And thy young, sweet smile I see:
For my heart— my heart were all alone,
But for sweetest dreams of thee!