Open your eyes (Frederic Woodman Root)

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• (Posted 2023-12-04)  CPDL #77825:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-04).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 540 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Open your eyes
Composer: Frederic Woodman Root
Lyricist: James Ramsey Murray
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1869 Root & Cady
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Original text and translations

English text

You need not search for the sunshine bright,
You need not grope in the darksome night,
You need not wander without the light,
If you’ll open your eyes and see it;

You need not pine for music sweet,
And a doleful strain of your own repeat;
You may know the sound of her beautiful feet,
Just open your ears and hear it.

You need not sigh for the vanished May,
Or the cherished hopes that have flown away;
For yours is the joy of a better day,
If you’ll open your heart and love it.