Now daylight fades (John Ernest Richard de Valmency)

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• (Posted 2023-12-14)  CPDL #78202:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-14).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 545 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Now daylight fades
Composer: John Ernest Richard de Valmency
Lyricist: Alicia Julia Foot
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Now daylight fades beneath the western sky,
The sun has set in glorious majesty;
Soft evening steals upon me pale and calm
And seems to shed around a hallowed charm.

If gloomy night at morn the brow should cloud
Amidst gay laughter and wild turmoil loud,
They cease when seeking at the close of day,
Some spot to dream the fading hours away.

Now daylight fades beneath the western sky,
The sun has set in glorious majesty;
Soft evening steals upon me pale and calm
And seems to shed around a hallowed charm.

If gloomy night at morn the brow should cloud
Amidst gay laughter and wild turmoil loud,
They cease when seeking at the close of day,
Some spot to dream the fading hours away.

Dreaming once more of those dear haunting eyes,
Blue with the azure light of summer eyes,
Eyes that again on earth I ne’er may see,
Save in the hour of twilight twilight reverie.

Ah! then the memory only fills my breast
Of one beloved, and lost and now at rest,
And dreaming thus all earth’s small sorrows cease
At eve an angel breathes of love and peace.