Ellen's Song (Scott) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Soldier Rest! thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;
Dream of battled fields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking. 
 
In our isle's enchanted hall,
Hands unseen thy couch are strewing,
Fairy strains of music fall,
Every sense in slumber dewing. 

Soldier Rest! thy warfare o'er,
Dream of fighting fields no more;
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking. 
 
No rude sound shall reach thine ear,
Armour's clang, or war-steed champing,
Trump nor pibroch summon here
Mustering clan, or war-steed champing. 
 
Ruder sounds shall none be near
Guards nor warders challenge here,
Here's no war-steeds neigh and champing,
Shouting clans, or squadrons stamping. 
 
Yet the lark's shrill fife may come
At the day-break from the fallow,
And the bittern sound his drum,
Booming from the sedgy shallow. 
 
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, 
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking:
Dream of battled fields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking.

Authorship

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

The Lady of the Lake

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

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Set in German, adapted by Adam Storck (1780-1822) [pseudonym] DUT ITA GER

Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)

Date added to the website: 2003-11-07.

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