Wake up, sweet melody (Philip P. Bliss)

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• (Posted 2023-09-26)  CPDL #75731:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 456 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Wake Up, Sweet Melody
Composer: Philip P. Bliss
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1869 Root & Cady
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English text

    Wake up sweet melody!
       Now is the hour
    When young and loving hearts
       Feel most thy power.
One note of music by Moonlight’s soft ray—
Oh, ’tis worth thousands heard coldly by day.
    Then wake up sweet melody!
       Now is the hour
    When young and loving hearts
       Feel most thy power.

    Ask the fond nightingale,
       When his sweet flower
    Loves most to hear his song,
       In her green bower?
Oh, he will tell thee through Summer nights long,
Fondest she lends her whole Soul to his song.
    Then wake up sweet melody!
       Now is the hour
    When young and loving hearts
       Feel most thy power.