Mists Before The Sunrise Fly is a part-song written in 1936 for two Voices and Piano by Geoffrey Shaw setting a poem by his daughter Margaret Shaw. It takes the tune from an earlier work Siciliano by the English composer Thomas Arne (1710-1778) who is best known for writing the patriotic song Rule Britannia! while working at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. GeoffreyShaw (1879-1943) was a British composer organist and teacher. He was a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral before going on to study under Charles Stanford and Charles Wood. He later became a teacher and an inspector for theBoard of Education.
