by Marguerite Merington (1857 - 1951)
How fair the night
Language: English
How fair the night! How fair the night! In sky and sea the crescent moon so bright! Did sea and sky Perchance a silver sixpence break For sweet love’s sake? But you and I No vows did make, For well we knew What empty things are words when hearts are true!
Note for the Templeton-Strong set: The printed scores contain errors of punctuation not corrected against the composer’s original manuscript. See https://patrinum.ch/record/242915?ln=en&v=pdf.
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by George Templeton Strong (1856 - 1948), "How fair the night", op. 43 (Five songs with pianoforte) no. 1 (1892), published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
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