The night will never stay, The night will still go by, Though with a million stars You pin it to the sky, Though you bind it with the blowing wind And buckle it with the moon, The night will slip away, Like sorrow, or a tune.
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Authorship:
- by Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965), appears in Poems for Children, first published 1951 [author's text not yet checked 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):
- by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "The night will never stay", 1949 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994), "The night will never stay", 1978, published 1979 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Four Miniatures, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2012-02-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 46