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SOURCE: Novello edition (1914)
COMPOSER: Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
transcribed from Novello edition by Robert G. Nottingham in the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edward Elgar 09/02/07
The Shower
Cloud, if as thou dost melt, and with thy train
Of drops make soft the Earth, my eyes could weep
O'er my hard heart, that's bound up and asleep;
Perhaps at last,
Some such showers past,
My God would give a sunshine after rain.
Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
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(Mill Hill)