Language: English 
 ... 
Songs half heard in the twilight, 
  Dying softly to rest.
Broken snatches of music,
  Stirring the depths that sleep,
Where memory patient bideth 
  Her silent watch to keep.

 ...
Copied from An Offering. Second Series, ed. by M. B. London, H. K. Lewis : 1882.

Composition:

    Set to music by Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 - 1972), "In the twilight", published 1889, stanza 1 [ voice and piano ]

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