Text: Richard Townsend Warner
Music: Frederick Septimus Kelly, From "Songs of love and loss", 1. It is not dawn till you awake
It is not dawn till you awake
And shew your radiant eyes:
It is not day, though day may break,
Till sunlike you arise.
In vain the lark shall pierce the sky
To find the heav'n of blue.
There is no blue but in your eye,
There is no heav'n but you.
It is not dusk while yet you keep
Those eyelids open wide:
It is not night till you're asleep,
Then sleeps all else beside.
Save one dim distant unloved star
That sighs the lightlong through,
There is no light where you are far,
There is no love but you!
당신이 일어나 그 밝은 눈동자를
보이기 전엔 아직 동트지 않았고
날이 밝았더라도 태양같은 당신이
일어나기 전이라면 아직 낯이 아닐진데...
당신의 눈동자 외에 푸른빛은 없고
당신 외에는 천국이 없으니...
It is not dawn till you awake - Andrew Goodwin
Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881-1916), Australian/British composer
"Songs of Love and Loss"는 Kelly의 아래 5 song collection이다:
1. It is not dawn till you awake
2. Shall I compare thee to summer's day
3. Music when soft voices die
4. Aghadoe
5. Crossing the Bar
사족:
Sydney-born Kelly는 영국에서 교육받았고 1차 세계대전에 참전,
1916 전쟁터에서 사망한다.
위 text의 저자 Richard Townsend Warner는 Kelly의 Eton College 친구라 한다.