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| 16548 | The Cyber Hymnal#16549 | 16550 |
| Text: | Softly Through the Mellow Starlight |
| Author: | Anonymous |
| Tune: | GUNTUR |
| Composer: | George Edgar Oliver, 1856-1941 |
| Media: | MIDI file |
2 Softly through the mellow starlight
Steals a strain of silver song;
Lo, the echoing hills proclaim it,
Waft the glad refrain along.
Refrain:
Glory, glory, Christ is risen!
Whispered in the starlit way,
List the lovely shades re-echo,
"Christ the Lord is ris’n today."
3 Happy bands in shining raiment
Fill the arch of Heaven’s dome,
Sweep their harps to strains so tender,
Wafted from their distant home. [Refrain]
3 Softly through life’s shaded valley
Comes once more the silver strain,
Borne on angel pinions to us,
And we join the sweet refrain. [Refrain]
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Softly through the mellow starlight |
| Title: | Softly Through the Mellow Starlight |
| Author: | Anonymous |
| Refrain First Line: | Glory, glory, Christ is risen! |
| Meter: | 87.87 D |
| Language: | English |
| Source: | Carols Old and Carols New by Charles L. Hutchins (Boston: Parish Choir, 1916) |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | GUNTUR |
| Composer: | George Edgar Oliver, 1856-1941 |
| Meter: | 87.87 D |
| Key: | E♭ Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Media | |
|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat image: |  PDF |
| MIDI file: |  MIDI |
| Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |
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