“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 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

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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