Waken, lords and ladies gay
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English
Waken, lords and ladies gay,
[On]1 the mountain dawns the day;
All the jolly chase is here.
With hawk and horses and hunting-spear!
[Hounds are in their couples yelling,
Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling,
Merrily, merrily mingle they,
"Waken, lords and ladies gay."]2
Waken, lords and ladies gay,
The mist has left the mountain gray,
[Springlets in the dawn are steaming,
Diamonds on the brake are gleaming,
And foresters have busy been
To track the buck in thicker green;
Now we come to chant our lay,
"Waken, lords and ladies gay."]3
Waken lords and ladies gay,
To the greenwood haste away;
We can show you where he lies,
Fleet of foot and tall of size;
We can show the marks he made
When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed;
You shall see him brought to bay;
Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Louder, louder chant the lay,
Waken, lords and ladies gay!
Tell them youth and mirth and glee
[Run a course as well as we;
Time, stern huntsman! who can balk,
Stanch as hound and fleet as hawk?
Think of this, and rise with day,
Gentle lords and ladies gay!]4
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1 Beethoven: "Upon"
2 Beethoven: "The eager hounds in chorus cry, /
The swelling horns salute the sky; /
And merrily, merrily mingle they, /
Then Waken, lords and ladies gay !"
3 Beethoven: "Brakes are deck'd with diamonds bright,
/ And streams rejoice in early light. /
The foresters have busy been /
To track the buck in thicket green; /
Now we are come to chant our lay, /
Then waken, lords and ladies gay."
4 Beethoven: "Run swift their course as well as we; /
Old Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk, /
As staunch as hound and fleet as hawk? /
O think of this, and rise with day, /
Ye gentle lords and ladies gay!"
Input by Brian Holmes
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Georgina Bairnsfather (1849-1916)
, "Waken, lords and ladies gay", published <<1883. [four-part chorus a cappella]
by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
, "Waken, lords and ladies gay", WoO. 155 (26 Walisische Lieder) no. 12 (1809-10), stanzas 1,2,4.
by Brian Holmes (1946-)
, "Hunting Song" [high voice, horn quartet], from Three Hunting Songs, no. 1.
Set in
German,
a translation of
Fanny (Franziska) von Hoffnaaß, née Jägerhuber (1831-1892)
GER
[text unavailable]
Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):
Date added to the website: 2005-07-06.
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