Text: | Stillness Reigns |
Author: | Guttormur J. Guttormsson |
Tune: | QUEM PASTORES |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 |
1 Stillness reigns, the winds are sleeping.
All the world is bent on keeping
tryst with night, whose wings are sweeping
from the west each ray of light.
2 Dusk, a soft and silken cover,
over all is seen to hover
in its readiness to cover
all the drowsy world, good night.
3 Those who labored long, untiring,
hail this time of rest desiring,
strength renewed through sweet retiring, welcome thoughts of peaceful night.
4 And through spaces real or seeming
find the Eden of their dreaming,
soar to starry ways, redeeming
hours of toil and pain, good night.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Stillness reigns, the winds are sleeping |
Title: | Stillness Reigns |
Author: | Guttormur J. Guttormsson |
Meter: | 8.8.8.7. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Transcending Mystery and Wonder: Evening; Closings |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | QUEM PASTORES |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 |
Meter: | 8.8.8.7. |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Source: | German, 14th cent. |
Copyright: | Harm. used by perm. of Oxford University Press |
Notes: | Now Public Domain |