How lovely is the heaven of this night, How deadly still its earth! The forest brute Has crept into his cave, and laid himself Where sleep has made him harmless like the lamb. The horrid snake, his venom now forgot, Is still and innocent as the honied flower Under his head: and man, in whom are met Leopard and snake, and all the gentleness And beauty of the young lamb and the bud, Has let his ghost out, put his thoughts aside And lent his senses unto death himself.
Two madrigals , opus 16
by Hubert du Plessis (b. 1922)
?. How lovely is the heaven of this night  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849), "A beautiful night", appears in The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, first published 1851
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