Jeptha's Daughter (Byron, set by I. Nathan) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Since our Country, our God -- Oh, my Sire! 
Demand that thy Daughter expire; 
Since thy triumph was brought by thy vow -- 
Strike the bosom that's bared for thee now! 

And the voice of my mourning is o'er, 
And the mountains behold me no more: 
If the hand that I love lay me low, 
There cannot be pain in the blow! 

And of this, oh, my Father! be sure -- 
That the blood of thy child is as pure 
As the blessing I beg ere it flow, 
And the last thought that soothes me below. 

Though the virgins of Salem lament, 
Be the judge and the hero unbent! 
I have won the great battle for thee, 
And my Father and Country are free! 

When this blood of thy giving hath gush'd, 
When the voice that thou lovest is hush'd, 
Let my memory still be thy pride, 
And forget not I smiled as I died!

Authorship

George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Hebrew Melodies

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

Isaac Nathan (1790-1864)

A Selection of Hebrew Melodies No. I

Set in German, a translation of Franz Theremin (1780-1846) GER

Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe (1796-1869)

Set in German, a translation of Karl Julius Körner (1793-1873) GER

Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856)

3 Gesänge

Set in German, a translation of Adolf Böttger (1815-1870) GER

Karl Müller

Hebräische Melodien

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