When All Things Repose

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When All Things Repose (:48)

by James Joyce 

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

James Joyce was born on this day in 1882 in Dublin.

from Chamber Music

  At that hour when all things have repose,

     O lonely watcher of the skies,

     Do you hear the night wind and the sighs

     Of harps playing unto Love to unclose

     The pale gates of sunrise?

     When all things repose, do you alone

     Awake to hear the sweet harps play

     To Love before him on his way,

     And the night wind answering in antiphon

     Till night is overgone?

     Play on, invisible harps, unto Love,

     Whose way in heaven is aglow

     At that hour when soft lights come and go,

     Soft sweet music in the air above

     And in the earth below.