Morning Song (Benjamin Hanby)

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• (Posted 2023-10-24)  CPDL #76594:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-24).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 546 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Morning Song
Composer: Benjamin Hanby
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1867 Root & Cady
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

The morning is beaming,
The morning is beaming,
Oh, hasten the sight to behold,
The mountains are gleaming,
The mountains are gleaming
With tintings of purple and gold;
The forests are ringing
With bright birds singing
To welcome the coming of day.

Up! slumbering mortals
And bring from your portals
A greeting as glad as they;
Hillillilo, Hillillilo,
We hail the dawn of the morning;
Hillillilo, Hillillilo,
We welcome the coming day.

The hilltops are glowing,
The hilltops are glowing
With light like a mantle of snow,
The cattle are lowing,
The cattle are lowing
As forth to the meadows they go;
Their mellow bells’
Jingle makes gladsome tingle
To welcome the coming of day.

The brooklets are dashing,
The brooklets are dashing
O’er pebbles of crimson and white,
The rivers are flashing,
The rivers are flashing
Their arrows of silvery light;
Thus meadow and mountain
And grove and fountain
Rejoice at the coming of day.