The Curfew Bell (Joseph Cox Bridge)

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• (Posted 2023-09-28)  CPDL #75812:  Vocal Score   2 Horns    

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-28).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 798 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Curfew Bell
Composer: Joseph Cox Bridge
Lyricist: Thomas Gray
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: 2 horns in F

First published: 1887 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Beneath those rugged elms, the yew-tree’s shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mould’ring heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,
The swallow twitt’ring from the straw-built shed,
The cock’s shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.