Be near me when my light is low (Huub de Lange)

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Editor: Huub de Lange (added 2006-12-02).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 113 kbytes   Copyright: Personal
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Title: Be near me when my light is low
Composer: Huub de Lange
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) (from "In Memoriam A.H.H." poem 50)

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Partsongs
Language: English
Instruments: none, a capella
Published: 2006

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Original text and translations

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Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; and the heart is sick,
And all the wheels if Being slow.

Be near me when the sensuous frame
Is rack'd with pangs that conquer trust;
And Time, a maniac scattering dust,
And life, a Fury slinging flame.

Be near me when my faith is dry,
And men the flies of latter spring,
That lay their eggs, and sting and sing
And weave their petty cells and die.

Be near me when I fade away,
To point the term of human strife,
And on the low dark verge of life
The twilight of eternal day.