Nightfall

Nightfall is the first song of Lori Laitman's song cycle Mystery. The song sets a poem from Sara Teasdale's Flame and Shadow of 1920.

Date: 1998Composer: Lori LaitmanText: Sara TeasdaleSong Collection: Mystery

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Nightfall
by Sara Teasdale

We will never walk again
As we used to walk at night,
Watching our shadows lengthen
Under the gold street-light
When the snow was new and white.
We will never walk again
Slowly, we two,
In spring when the park is sweet
With midnight and with dew,
And the passers-by are few.
I sit and think of it all,
And the blue June twilight dies,
Down in the clanging square
A street-piano cries
And stars come out in the skies.

Sheet Music

Mystery (Baritone Version)

Composer(s): Lori Laitman

Song(s): 1. Nightfall
2. Spray
3. The Kiss
4. The Mystery
5. The Rose

Voice Type: Low

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Mystery (Mezzo-Soprano Version)

Composer(s): Lori Laitman

Song(s): 1. Nightfall
2. Spray
3. The Kiss
4. The Mystery
5. The Rose

Voice Type: Medium

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