Radiant Sister of the Day (Rosalind Frances Ellicott)

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• (Posted 2023-10-12)  CPDL #76293:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-12).   Score information: Letter, 24 pages, 984 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Radiant Sister of the Day
Composer: Rosalind Frances Ellicott
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1887 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Radiant Sister of the Day,
Awake! arise! and come away!
To the wild woods and the plains;
And the pools where winter rains
Image all their roof of leaves;
Where the pine its garland weaves
Of sapless green and ivy dun
Round stems that never kiss the sun;
Where the lawns and pastures be,
And the sandhills of the sea;
Where the melting hoar-frost wets
The daisy-star that never sets,
And wind-flowers, and violets
Which yet join not scent to hue,
Crown the pale year weak and new;
When the night is left behind
In the deep east, dun and blind,
And the blue noon is over us,
And the multitudinous
Billows murmur at our feet
Where the earth and ocean meet,
And all things seem only one
In the universal sun.

from The Invitation