The Close of Day (Arthur Albert Clappé)

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• (Posted 2023-10-03)  CPDL #75988:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-03).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 609 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Close of Day
Composer: Arthur Albert Clappé
Lyricist: Johann Ludwig Uhland
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1884 W. F. Shaw
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Original text and translations

English text

Now the sun, his journey ending,
Sinks, his burning brow to lave;
How he lingers, still descending
To the tranquil western wave!
Hushed each breeze and calm each billow;
Gilded clouds attend his way;
Ocean smooths her rugged pillow
To receive the king of day.

Silence comes, with evening shadows,
On the mountain and the plain;
Only in the darkling meadows
Still the quail prolongs her strain;
And the lark goes singing, soaring
Upward from the fragrant dell,
To the last faint sunbeam pouring
Gratefully her fond farewell.

Johann Ludwig Uhland, transl.