Video Information

• Piece: The evening primrose
• Composer:  Benjamin Britten
• Conductor:  Benjamin Britten
• Voices:  SATB
• Sheet Music:   www.sheetmusicplus.com/ti...  
• Genres: A cappella, Classical
• Sung by us at a singing course in Nottingham in 1977
  
  When once the sun sinks in the west,
  And dew-drops pearl the evening's breast;
  Almost as pale as moonbeams are,
  Or its companionable star,
  The evening primrose...  moreSung by us at a singing course in Nottingham in 1977
  
  When once the sun sinks in the west,
  And dew-drops pearl the evening's breast;
  Almost as pale as moonbeams are,
  Or its companionable star,
  The evening primrose opes anew
  Its delicate blossoms to the dew;
  And hermit-like, shunning the light,
  Wastes its fair bloom upon the night;
  Who, blindfold to its fond caresses,
  Knows not the beauty he possesses.
  Thus it blooms on while night is by;
  When day looks out with open eye,
  'Bashed at the gaze it cannot shun,
  It faints, and withers, and is gone.  less