Twilight (Elgar)
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"Twilight" is a poem written by Gilbert Parker, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1910, as his Op. 59, No. 6.
The Opus 59 songs were part of a song-cycle of six romantic songs that was never completed – strangely Nos 1, 2 and 4 were never composed. This song was originally written with piano accompaniment, but this was later re-scored by the composer for full orchestra.
[edit] Lyrics
- Adieu! and the sun goes awearily down,
- The mist creeps up o'er the sleepy town,
- The white sails bend to the shuddering mere,
- And the reapers have reaped, and the night is here.
- Adieu! and the years are a broken song,
- The right grows weak in the strife with wrong,
- The lilies of love have a crimson stain,
- And the old days never will come again.
- Adieu! Some time shall the veil between
- The things that are, and that might have been,
- Be folded back for our eyes to see,
- And the meaning of all be clear to me.
[edit] References
- Michael Kennedy, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0193154145
