The foggy dew - Stanford, Charles Villiers

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⌛ Period → Late Romantic ◈ Genre → Folksongs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 79432

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2024-03-07

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

Oh! a wan cloud was drawn O’er the dim, weeping dawn, As to Shannon’s side I returned at last; And the heart in my breast For the girl I loved best Was beating— ah, beating, how loud and fast! While the doubts and the fears Of the long, aching years Seemed mingling their voices with the moaning flood; Till full in my path, Like a wild water-wraith, My true love’s shadow lamenting stood. But the sudden sun kissed The cold, cruel mist Into dancing showers of diamond dew; And the dark flowing stream Laughed back to his beam, And the lark soared singing aloft in the blue; While no phantom of night, But a form of delight Ran with arms outspread to her darling boy: And the girl I loved best On my wild, throbbing breast Hid her thousand treasures, with a cry of joy.