Tenor Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.767084 Composed by Mike Lyons. Contemporary. 7 pages. Lyons Music Services #1646913. Published by Lyons Music Services (A0.767084). This is a setting of the poem The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The music reflects both the gloominess of the first two stanzas and the hope of the final stanza. The text is very reflective, focussing on the thoughts of an older man as he looks at his life and sees the sadness and unpleasantness he has lived through, but eventually realises that everyone has these traumas at some point and one has to move on. There is always hope. The tempo should be relaxed but forward moving, giving the tenor the room he needs to shape the words.