Lift up your hearts in Gumber

Lift up your hearts in Gumber, laugh the Weald
And you most ancient Valley of Arun sing.
Here am I homeward from my wandering,
Here am I homeward and my heart is healed.
If I was thirsty, I have heard a spring.
If I was dusty, I have found a field.
[...]

by (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) , no title, from Sonnets and Verse (1923), published 1923

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

by Christopher Kaye Le Fleming (1908-) , "Lift up your hearts in Gumber", published 1962 [baritone, SATB chorus, and orchestra], from Valley of Arun, no. ?
by John Raynor (1909-1970) , "Lift up your hearts in Gumber" [baritone and piano]

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