It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard -- It is the hour -- when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word -- And gentle winds and waters near Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met: And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue -- And in the Heaven, that clear obscure So softly dark -- and darkly pure, That follows the decline of day As twilight melts beneath the moon away.
Ten Glees and a Madrigal for Four and Five Voices
Song Cycle by James Munro Coward (1824 - 1880)
?. It is the hour  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "It is the hour", appears in Hebrew Melodies, no. 12, first published 1815
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris) , "C'est l'heure", appears in Mélodies hébraïques, no. 12
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