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by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931)

Good night
Language: English 
Good-night! Good-night! Our feast is ended,
By young and old with smiles attended;
Where Wit and Worth and beauty blended,
To speed the hours with dance and song.
Beauty’s smile
Free from guile,
Wit that shone
Wounding none;
And manly Worth and Woman true,
Good-night! and joy go home with you!

Good-night! and may your minstrel’s numbers
Still echo on amid your slumbers,
To spell-bind every care that cumbers
The lover’s heart, the mother’s breast.
Beauty, Mirth,
Wit and Worth
Fall to sleep,
Calm and deep,
Nor rouse, till rosy morrow call,
“Awake, and joy go with you all!” 

Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931), "Good night" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, [adaptation] ; composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir.
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This text was added to the website: 2015-04-08
Line count: 20
Word count: 99

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