Hail! Beauteous stranger of the grove (Soper) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Hail! Beauteous stranger of the grove,
Thou messenger of spring!
Now heav'n repairs thy rural seat,
And woods thy welcome sing.

What time the daisy decks the green,
Thy certain voice we hear;
Hast thou a star to guide thy path,
Or mark the rolling year.

Delightful visitant! With thee
I hail the time of flow'rs,
And hear the sound of music sweet
>From birds among the bow'rs.

The school-boy wand'ring thro' the wood,
To pluck the primrose gay;
Starts the new voice of spring to hear,
And imitates the lay.

What time the pea puts on the bloom,
Thou fliest thy vocal vale;
An annual guest in other lands,
Another spring to hail.

Sweet bird! Thy bow'r  is ever green,
Thy sky is ever clear;
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.

O, could I fly, I'd fly with thee;
We'd make with joyful wing,
Our annual visit o'er the globe,
Companions of the Spring.

Note: Soper's text is not even remotely faithful to the German original.

Input by Bertram Kottmann

Authorship

Francis L. Soper

Sixty melodies for youth, for two, three, and four voices, composed by Silcher, adapted to English words, for the use of schools and singing classes

Based on

text

Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860)

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Set in German, original text by Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860) ENG

(Philipp) Friedrich Silcher (1789-1860)

Zwölf Kinderlieder für Schule und Haus, von Ernst Moritz Arndt, Agnes Franz, Fr. Güll, Hölty, Wilh. Müller, Christoph Schmid, K.W. Wiedenfeld etc. zwei- und dreistimmig

Date added to the website: 2004-11-28.

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