1961
Night Song
Composed by 
H. Leslie Adams
H. Leslie Adams Text by 
Clarissa Scott Delany
Clarissa Scott Delany Nightsongs Song Collection
"Night Song" is the fourth song of H. Leslie Adams' song cycle Nightsongs: Six Afro-American Songs. The song sets the poem "Interim" by Clarissa Scott Delany.
Text
Interim
by Clarissa Scott Delany
The night was made for rest and sleep,
For winds that softly sigh;
It was not made for grief and tears;
So then why do I cry?
The wind that blows through leafy trees
Is soft and warm and sweet;
For me the night is a gracious cloak
To hide my soul’s defeat.
Just one dark hour of shaken depths,
Of bitter black despair-
Another day will find me brave,
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