Lo, the blithesome lark is soaring (Soper) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Lo, the blithesome lark is soaring
Far aloft thro' morning skies,
Songs of grateful gladness pouring,
Higher, higher see him rise.
Thousand warblers now are springing
Up to meet the welcome morn;
Sky and grove with joy are ringing;
Hark, the wild entrancing horn!

Ev'ry mountain altar blazes;
Incense sweet to heav'n ascends;
Meadows waft their silent praises;
Ev'ry flow'r adoring bends.
Man, awake from heavy slumbers;
Morning breaks serenely bright;
Songs of praise, in tuneful numbers,
Raise to Him who rules the night.

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

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

Johann Wilhelm Hey (1789-1854)

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, original text by Johann Wilhelm Hey (1789-1854) ENG

(Philipp) Friedrich Silcher (1789-1860)

Zwölf Kinderlieder aus dem Anhange des Specter'schen Fabelbuches

Date added to the website: 2004-12-29.

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