Two Mystical Songs for Baritone and Orchestra

Song Cycle by Peter Charles Crossley-Holland (1916 - 2001)

?. In the Twilight  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh heart again in the gray twilight,
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
  
Your mother Eire is always young,
Dew ever shining and twilight gray;
Though hope fall from you and love decay,
Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.
  
Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
And river and stream work out their will;
  
And God stands winding His lonely horn,
And time and the world are ever in flight;
And love is less kind than the gray twilight,
And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.

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Note: also sometimes titled "Into the Twilight"
First published in National Observer (July 1893), revised same year

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 123