Fight for right (Morris, set by E. Elgar) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Quasi recit. ad lib.
 When thou hearest the fool rejoicing, and he saith, 'It is over and past,
 And the wrong was better than right, and hate turns into love at the last,
 And we strove for nothing at all, and the Gods are fallen asleep;
 For so good is the world a-growing that the evil good shall reap:'

a tempo
 Then loosen thy sword in the scabbard and settle the helm on thine head,
 For men betrayèd are mighty, and great are the wrongfully dead.

Chorus
 Then loosen thy sword in the scabbard and settle the helm on thine head,
 For men betrayèd are mighty, and great are the wrongfully dead.

Authorship

William Morris (1834-1896)

The Story of Sigurd the Völsung

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

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Date added to the website: 2009-02-05.

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