Upon the mountain’s distant head (George J. Webb)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-20). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 301 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Upon the mountain’s distant head
Composer: George J. Webb
Lyricist: William Cullen Bryant
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1843 J. H. Wilkins and R. B. Carter
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Original text and translations
English text
Upon the mountain’s distant head,
With trackless snows for ever white,
Where all is still, and cold, and dead,
Late shines the day’s departing light.
But far below those icy rocks,
The vales, in summer bloom arrayed,
Woods full of birds, and fields of flocks,
Are dim with mist and dark with shade.
’Tis thus, from warm and kindly hearts,
And eyes where generous meanings burn,
Earliest the light of life departs,
But lingers with the cold and stern.