STORY/ SCENARIO: Bone weary after a hard day's toil, an Accumula Townsman unwinds in the warm glow of a summer's evening.
VARIATIONS: There are three important changes, all concentrated towards the very end of the verse (Till then it's goodbye from him):
- The dotted crotchet at the start of bar 15 is replaced by two dotted quavers (then it's) - notes D, E.
- The held note in bar 16 is replaced by two dotted quavers followed by a dotted crotchet (him, him, him) - i.e. a carbon copy of bar 7 (swim, swim, swim).
- The piece is extended by one bar - from 16 to 17 - with bar 17 being a carbon copy of bar 8 - i.e. the three notes in the preceding bar echoed one octave higher.
In the dewy evening balm,
Sweet numbness shall spread
Down into every limb.
On a sea of peaceful calm
And dumbness, my head
Begins to swim, swim, swim. (Swim! Swim! Swim!)
For weary as I
The sun is ceasing his burn:
His kingdom on high
He knows it's time to adjourn.
Back to the sky
He vows tomorrow to return;
Till then it's goodbye
From him, him, him. (Him! Him! Him!)
As the crickets start to cheer -
A chorus as old
As stone beneath a hill -
And the primroses appear
Before us, behold!
The earth lies still, still, still. (Still! Still! Still!)
And soft is the saugh
Of wind that sweeps o'er the plain.
To rich and to poor
It sings a sighing refrain:
'Let men adore
My twilight till it shines again'.
Henceforth, evermore
I will, will, will. (Will! Will! Will!)