“The Sun Has Long Been Set” is a poem written by the British poet William Wordsworth (1770 –1850). The poem paints a beautiful and serene picture of a summer’s night in nature. Here we can be ourselves while enjoying the birds, trees, water and nightsky. Wordsworth suggests that the simple pleasure of being in nature surpasses that of a life in London.

I’ve only used a few instruments in this song; vocals, piano, guitar, strings and a celeste. I hope I managed to capture the poem’s peaceful feeling with the arrangement.

The Sun Has Long Been Set - Poem By William Wordsworth

The sun has long been set,
  The stars are out by twos and threes,
The little birds are piping yet
  Among the bushes and trees;
There’s a cuckoo, and one or two thrushes,
And a far-off wind that rushes,
And a sound of water that gushes,
And the cuckoo’s sovereign cry
Fills all the hollow of the sky.
  Who would “go parading”
In London, “and masquerading,”
On such a night of June
With that beautiful soft half-moon,
And all these innocent blisses?
On such a night as this is!

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