Higher, higher will we climb (Henry Lahee)

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• (Posted 2023-11-07)  CPDL #77033:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-07).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 324 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Higher, higher will we climb
Composer: Henry Lahee
Lyricist: James Montgomery
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 Tonic Sol-Fa Agency
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English text

Higher, higher will we climb
Up the mount of glory,
That our names may live through time
In our country’s story;
Happy, when her welfare calls,
He who conquers, he who falls.

Onward, onward will we press
Through the path of duty;
Virtue is true happiness,
Excellence true beauty;
Minds are of supernal birth,
Let us make a heaven of earth.

Close and closer then we knit
Hearts and hands together,
Where our fire-side comforts sit
In the wildest weather;
Oh! they wander wide, who roam,
For the joys of life, from home.