The Old Clock on the Stairs: A Short Cantata for Quartette and Chorus of Mixed VoicesC.J. Whitney, 1876 - 40 pages |
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26 CHORUS 40 FORT ST ancient timepiece Andante ask with throbs Bass C. J. WHITNEY CANTATA For QUARTETTE Chestnut & Fifth children play'd chim ney roar'd CHORUS OF MIXED cient timepiece says counts his gold cres day its voice dead of night death and days er nev ev er fires forever Forever-never FREDERIC H Free hearted Hospi heard the old HENRY W hours the ancient hush that followed J. M. ARMSTRONG legato long since gone LONGFELLOW low and light Maestoso Moderato Mosso MUSIC BY FREDERIC MUSIC TYPOGRAPHER N. E. Cor nev er ceased Nev er-for never ceased Never-forever old clock PEASE points and beckons precious hours QUARTETTE AND CHORUS Ritard sant-ly shadows throw SHORT CANTATA stairs it stands Stands the old-fashion'd stranger feast tal-i-ty throbs of pain trees their shadows ty Sayeth unchanged UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN village street WORDS BY HENRY नै
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Page 6 - SOMEWHAT back from the village street Stands the old-fashioned country-seat. Across its antique portico Tall poplar-trees their shadows throw ; And from its station in the hall An ancient timepiece says to all, — " Forever — never! Never — forever!
Page 6 - Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " Through days of sorrow and of mirth, Through days of death and days of birth, Through every swift vicissitude Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood, And as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality; His great fires up the chimney roared ; The stranger feasted at his board ; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece...
Page 6 - From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding night : There, in that silent room below, The dead lay in his shroud of snow ; And in the hush that followed the prayer, Was heard the old clock on the stair, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Page 6 - Forever — never! Never — forever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding night ; There, in that silent room below, The dead lay in his shroud of snow ; And in the hush that followed the prayer, Was heard the old clock on the stair, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " All are scattered now and fled. Some are married, some are dead ; And when I ask, with throbs of pain, " Ah! when shall they all meet again ?" As in the days long since gone by, The...
Page 6 - Halfway up the stairs it stands, . . And points and beckons with its hands From its case of massive oak, Like a monk, who, under his cloak, Crosses himself, and sighs, alas ! With sorrowful voice to all who pass, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Page 6 - Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " • There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed; O precious hours! O golden prime! And affluence of love and time! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Page 6 - By day its voice is low and light ; But in the silent dead of night, Distinct as a passing footstep's fall, It echoes along the vacant hall, Along the ceiling, along the floor, And seems to say, at each chamber-door, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever !
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