| Summary: | Original manuscript for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass written in pencil on mimeographed staff paper. The words are from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Chimes".Vocal, Piano10 pages; 8 1/2 x 11Sweet chimes! that in the loneliness of night Salute the of the household mark the movements and silent chambers movements and in the dark movements passing hour, movements of the myriad orbs of light the myriad orbs of light the myriad orbs of light the myriad orbs of light By the inner sight, through my closed eyelids, I see the constellations Of their great circles moving on, in the arc And hark! I almost hear them singing hear them singing in their flight. Almost heard them singing in their flight. in their flight. in their flight in their flight. Almost heard them Almost heard them singing in their singing in their flight singing in their flight I almost heard them singing in their flight Flight. Better than sleep it is to lie awake, O'er-canopied by the vast starry dome Of the immeasurable sky; vast starry dome Of the immeasurable sky of vast starry dome Of the immeasurable sky of vast starry dome Of the immeasurable sky of Of the immeasurable sky immeasurable sky; the immeasurable sky the immeasurable sky immeasurable sky the immeasurable sky the immeasurable sky Sky to feel the slumbering Sky to feel Sky to feel Sky to feel Sky to feel the world sink under us, and make sink under us, and make Hardly an eddy,--a mere rush of foam eddy, eddy, eddy, On the great sea beneath a sinking keel. sinking a sinking a sinking a sinking sinking kneel sinking kneel sinking kneel. sinking kneel. kneel.
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