Arise, arise, the sunbeams hail (Francesco Berger)

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• (Posted 2023-09-22)  CPDL #75604:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-22).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 778 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2019-06-06)  CPDL #54490:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-06-06).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 149 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Arise, arise, the sunbeams hail
Composer: Francesco Berger
Lyricist: J. Baskerville^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, some TB divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1870 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 3, no. 97
Description: Translation of a poem by Ludwig Tieck. Berger chose to omit a number of lines of the original poem poem, disrupting the line and rhyme pattern.

Original text and translations

English text

Arise! arise! the sunbeams hail,
And bid thee God's wide world survey.
Go, wander over hill and dale.
E'er cheerfully upon thy way.
Arise! arise! the sunbeams hail!

The torrent's course ne'er standeth still,
It gaily runs its race
Hear'st thou the winds so shrill?
They rush from place to place.

The moon she journeys to and fro,
The sun doth daily flee,
Unwearied o'er the mountain's brow,
Then down into the sea.

And man, thou sittest e'er at home,
Yet longest to be free.
Arise, and o'er the valley roam,
And seek the distant zone!
Who knows where Fortune blooms for thee,
Go seek her, wouldst thou win.
Arise, arise!