The earth is beautiful (William Horatio Clarke)

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• (Posted 2024-03-17)  CPDL #79576:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-17).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 403 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The earth is beautiful
Composer: William Horatio Clarke
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1879 Ivison, Blakeman and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

This earth is very beautiful
When hearts are true and kind;
If we but search for richest gems,
What treasures we shall find!
Like springtime flowers in winter
Are the words of loving cheer,
That fall like sweetest music
On the patient, listening ear.
O, earth is beautiful,
If we are dutiful;
And O, how calm life’s stream shall flow,
When others share the joys we know.

How often, too, a little word,
Or kindly loving thought,
Is treasured deep within the heart,
Ne’er more to be forgot!
What seeming trifles sometimes give
To deep emotions birth;
And, O, what joy ecstatic springs
From deeds of greater worth!
Yes, earth is beautiful,
When we are dutiful;
And O, how calm life’s stream shall flow,
When others share the joys we know.

The beauteous scenes with which the earth
Is mantled everywhere,
Are but the shadows of the joys
That we may often share;
For all the beauties which the earth
So lavishly affords
Are ever made a hundredfold
More bright by loving words.
The earth is beautiful,
If we are dutiful;
And O, how calm life’s stream shall flow,
When others share the joys we know.