In the Gloaming (song)

"In the Gloaming" is an 1877 British song composed by Annie Fortescue Harrison with lyrics taken from a poem by Meta Orred. Orred's poem (of the same title as the song) appeared in her 1874 book Poems. "Gloaming" is a regional dialect term of Scots origin denoting "twilight".

The 1877 song, a lament of romantic regret, was very popular in the United States that year, and was again popularized in America in the 1910s by a recording made by The American Quartet with Will Oakland.

Harrison's husband Lord Arthur Hill was the commanding officer of the 2nd Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, which adopted the song as its regimental march.

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