The evening bell - Webb, George J.

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◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 12

CPDL # 79190

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2024-02-19

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

(originally titled and worded “The vesper bell) Hark! ’tis the evening-bell Far pealing from the shore– Oh! welcome are the tones that tell Of ocean wanderings o’er; They hail us from the homeless main To earth’s great family again. It brings the dream of home Of sweet sequester’d bowers, Of shades thro’ which I loved to roam, At still and starry hours, Of music heard at fall of day, Across the seas and far away. Oft have I paused to hail Amid my own loved land, The vesper-chime o’er hill and dale Float downward to the strand, And melt above the summer sea As now its magic falls on me. And thus its dying strain, Above the waters cast, Thrills o’er the dark mysterious chain That links me to the past, And from the dim and distant shore Speaks to my heart of days of yore.

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