By the sea (Frederick A. Challinor)

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• (Posted 2023-10-02)  CPDL #75971:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 564 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: By the sea
Composer: Frederick A. Challinor
Lyricist: William Wordsworth
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1907 Bayley & Ferguson
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Original text and translations

English text

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility;
The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the Sea;
Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder— everlastingly.
Dear child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here,
If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,
Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
Thou liest in Abr’am’s bosom all the year;
And worshipp’st at the Temple’s inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not.