by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

Language: English 
Solemnly, mournfully,
  Dealing its dole,
The Curfew Bell
  Is beginning to toll.
Cover the embers,
  Put out the light;
Toil comes with the morning,
  And rest with the night.
Dark grow the windows,
  And quenched is the fire;
Sound fades into silence,--
  All footsteps retire.
No voice in the chamber,
  No sound in the hall!
Sleep and oblivion
  Reign over all!

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Composition:

    Set to music by Richard Stöhr (1874 - 1967), "Curfew", op. 91 (Twelve Songs) no. 6 (1943-1944), stanza 1 [ voice and piano ], unpublished; manuscript at Saint Michael's College Archives and available in scanned form at the Petrucci Music Library

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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-08
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Word count: 126