The Wind and the Day (Arthur Foote)

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• (Posted 2023-10-16)  CPDL #76379:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-16).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 430 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Wind and the Day
Composer: Arthur Foote
Lyricist: Andrew Lang
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 Arthur P. Schmidt
Description: (A Sunset on Yarrow)

Four Songs, Opus 68, No. 2

Original text and translations

English text

The wind and the day had lived together,
    They died together, and far away
Spoke farewell in the sultry weather,
Out of the sunset, over the heather.
    The dying wind and the dying day.

Far in the south, the summer levin
    Flushed, a flame in the grey soft air:
We seemed to look on the hills of heaven;
You saw within, but to me 'twas given
    To see your face, as an angel's, there.

Never again, ah surely never
    Shall we wait and watch, where of old we stood,
The low good-night of the hill and the river.
The faint light fade, and the wan stars quiver,
    Twain grown one in the solitude.