See the harvest moon is shining (William Rhys-Herbert)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-01). Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 659 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: See the harvest moon is shining
Composer: William Rhys-Herbert
Lyricist: Maude Elizabeth Inch
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1906 J. Fischer & Bro.
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Original text and translations
English text
See the harvest moon is shining,
And the stars are gleaming bright,
Gentle twilight fast is fading,
Timid day has taken flight,
Dark the river, still the valley,
Gone the sun, not all his might,
Can arrest the silent progress,
Or contest the pow’r of night.
Hark! the nightingale is trilling,
Low and sweet among the trees,
And the grasses by the lakeside,
Hum the chorus, with the bees.
Wearied from a day of laughter
Cares no more the leaves to tease,
But subsides in sighing slumber
’Mid the sleepy birds and bees.
See the harvest moon is shining,
And the stars are gleaming bright,
Gentle twilight fast is fading,
Timid day the end is nearing,
Gone the sun, not all his might,
Can arrest the silent progress,
Or contest the pow’r of night.
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!