49. Stillness Reigns

1 Stillness reigns, the winds are sleeping.
All the world is bent on keeping
tryst with night, whose wings are sweeping
from the west each ray of light.

2 Dusk, a soft and silken cover,
over all is seen to hover
in its readiness to cover
all the drowsy world, good night.

3 Those who labored long, untiring,
hail this time of rest desiring,
strength renewed through sweet retiring, welcome thoughts of peaceful night.

4 And through spaces real or seeming
find the Eden of their dreaming,
soar to starry ways, redeeming
hours of toil and pain, good night.

Text Information
First Line: Stillness reigns, the winds are sleeping
Title: Stillness Reigns
Author: Guttormur J. Guttormsson
Meter: 8.8.8.7.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1993
Topic: Transcending Mystery and Wonder: Evening; Closings
Tune Information
Name: QUEM PASTORES
Harmonizer: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958
Meter: 8.8.8.7.
Key: E♭ Major
Source: German, 14th cent.
Copyright: Harm. used by perm. of Oxford University Press
Notes: Now Public Domain



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