Easter (Henry Kimball Hadley)

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• (Posted 2023-10-23)  CPDL #76566:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-23).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 544 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Easter
Composer: Henry Kimball Hadley
Lyricist: Frederic Manley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1901 C. C. Birchard & Company
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Original text and translations

English text

There’s a music up in the frozen hills,
A gently exultant harmony:
It rises and falls with a thousand trills,
And all the earth with its gladness fills;
And fountains and rivers, and lakes and rills
Are laughing aloud, “We are free!”
Arise from your darksome bed and see
That winter and death are past and ye are free,
O, ye flowers, are free!

A spirit hath come to the sleeping earth,
She has softly kissed the lifeless snow
With radiant lips and has given birth
To a many-voiced gurgling mirth.
Her wings have hung over the places of dearth,
And the hidden streams of life now show
Their wonders in all the buds which blow,
Above their deathless flow.

Arise, O laughter of lowland leas,
For your woodland sisters begin to wake;
The spirit hath kissed the anemonies,
And the virgin flowers that the wood-bird sees
From his nest in the boughs of the wild fruit trees,
And the violet peeps from the brake.
The waters of every pond, ev’ry pond and lake,
Of heaven’s rejoicing hues partake;
Awaken, awaken, O flowers, awake!