Evening
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Publication Information
Published in Oak and Ivy (1893)
Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin
Musical Settings
Henry Cowell, Evening (TTBBB chorus, falsetto or boys' chorus ad libitum, a capella) (January 1950)
Recommended Citation
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "Evening" (1893). Dunbar Music Archive. 130.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/130
Text
The moon begins her stately ride
Across the summer sky;
The happy wavelets lash the shore, --
The tide is rising high.
Beneath some friendly blade of grass
The lazy beetle cowers;
The coffers of the air are filled
With offerings from the flowers.
And slowly buzzing o'er my head
A swallow wings her flight;
I hear the weary plowman sing
As falls the restful night.