Edward Elgar - Evening Scene - ноты, текст песни (слова)

The sheep-bell tolleth curfew-time;
 The gnats, a busy rout,
 Fleck the warm air; the dismal owl
 Shouteth a sleepy shout;
 The voiceless bat, more felt than seen,
 Is flitting round about.
 
 The aspen leaflets scarcely stir:
 The river seems to think:
 Athwart the dusk, broad primroses
 Look coldly from the brink,
 Where, list'ning to the freshet's noise,
 The quiet cattle drink.
 
 The bees boom past, the white moths rise
 Like spirits from the ground;
 The gray flies hum their weary tune,
 A distant-dream-like sound;
 And far, far off to the slumb'rous eve,
 Bayeth an old guard-hound.