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• (Posted 2025-08-01)  CPDL #86160:   

Editor: Nalei HU (submitted 2025-08-01).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 130 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: 这是译配的中文版《安憩》(打开文件请点击上面的’pdf’标志)；您若有兴趣关注我译配的其他中文歌谱，请点击上面 Editor: 右边的 Nalei HU 链接，或者点击： Chinese。

• (Posted 2011-05-28)  CPDL #23367:        (Finale 2007)

Editor: Corey Axler^{create page} (submitted 2011-04-13).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 94 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Rest
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1902
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English text

O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth;
Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth
With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.
She hath no questions, she hath no replies,
Hushed in and curtained with a blessed dearth
Of all that irked her from the hour of birth;
With stillness that is almost Paradise.
Darkness more clear than noon-day holdeth her,
Silence more musical than any song;
Even her very heart has ceased to stir:
Until the morning of Eternity
Her rest shall not begin nor end, but be;
And when she wakes she will not think it long.
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1865)