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Good night, good rest
Staff Notation • Secular, Partsongs
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Different typesettings and voicings of the same work. This page shows the main edition; the others are below.
SATB · James Gibb
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Good night, good rest by Walter Cecil Macfarren — Lyrics
Good night, good rest! Ah! neither be my share!
She bade good night that kept my rest away;
And daffed me to a cabin hanged with care;
To descant on the doubts of my decay;
Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile,
In scorn or friendship, nil I construe whether;
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About Good night, good rest
This charming SATB setting by Walter Cecil Macfarren is a secular English part-song. Its text explores the bittersweet emotions of a lover's farewell. The speaker is left with unrest by the one they bid good night, finding only a
