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Sister, awake!

Language: English

Sister awake! Close not your eyes,
The day her light discloses,
And the bright morning doth arise,
Out of her bed of roses.

See the clear sun, the world's bright eye,
In at our window peeping;
Lo! how he blusheth to espy
Us idle wenches, sleeping!

Therefore awake! make Haste, I say,
And let us, without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the park a-maying!


Input by Graham Musto

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

Date added to the website: 2004-05-02.

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