Let beauty awake (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-06-08).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 243 kB    Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: File Sizes: MIDI: 11 KB

General Information

Title: Let Beauty Awake
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: Robert Louis Stevenson

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Baritone Solo

Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1907

Description: Number 2 in a set of 9 songs in the set of nine songs called "Songs of Travel".

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Original text and translations

English text

Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams,
Beauty awake from rest!
Let Beauty awake
For Beauty’s sake
In the hour when the birds awake in the brake
And the stars are bright in the west!

Let Beauty awake in the eve from the slumber of day,
Awake in the crimson eve!
In the day’s dusk end
When the shades ascend,
Let her wake to the kiss of a tender friend,
To render again and receive!