The old house on the hill (Alfred Arthur Graley)

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•  Posted on 2024-05-09(Posted 2024-05-09)  CPDL #80593:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-09).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 364 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The old house on the hill
Composer: Alfred Arthur Graley
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Taintor Brothers
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Twilight shadows fell around me,
Bright eyed stars shone from above,
As an August evening found me
Near the spot I dearly love.
And I listened to the murmur
Of the bright and laughing rill,
As I stood a weary wanderer,
By the Old House on the Hill.

Fancy spread her mantle o’er me,
Memory’s pencil sketched the scene,
And on magic wings they bore me
Thro’ the mazes of the dream;
And a form comes forth to meet me,
Ah! methinks I see it still!
And I hear a voice that greets me
At the Old House on the Hill.

Once again the birds were singing
On the trees about the door,
And the busy bees were bringing
Home their treasured winter store.
Hark! I hear a kind voice speaking
(Ay! a voice that death has still’d)
As we clasped our hands in greeting
At the Old House on the Hill.

Night her mantle drew around me,
Moon and stars like silver shone,
Yet a mystic spell still bound me
To my childhood’s happy home,
Not a sound disturbed the wildwood
On that evening calm and still,
As I dreamed of home and childhood
By the Old House on the Hill.