The long September evening dies

The long September evening dies
  In mist along the fields and lanes.
Only a few faint stars surprise
  The lingering twilight as it wanes.

Night creeps across the darkening vale;
  On the horizon tree by tree
Fades into shadowy skies as pale
  As moonlight on a shadowy sea.

And down the mist-enfolded lanes,
  Grown pensive now with evening,
See, lingering as the twilight wanes,
  Lover with lover wandering.

by Arthur Symons (1865-1945) , from London Nights, in Intermezzo: Pastoral, published 1895

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Gerald Wilfred Cockshott (1915-) , "Autumn twilight", 1946. [voice and piano]
by John Raynor (1909-1970) , "Autumn twilight" [baritone and piano]
by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym] , "Autumn's twilight", 1922, published 1923.

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