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


    Over the heights the snow lies deep,
Sunk is the land in peaceful sleep;
Here by the house of God we pray,
       Lead, Lord, our souls to-day.

           Shielding, like the silent snow,
           Fall his mercies here below.

    Calmly then, like the snow-bound land,
Rest we in his protecting hand;
Bowing, we wait his mighty will:
       Lead, Lord, and guide us still.

Input by Harold Ryan

Authorship

Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts (1848-1920)

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)

From the Bavarian Highlands

Date added to the website: 2009-07-05.

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