by William Allingham (1824 - 1889)
Fairies and Elves!
Language: English
Fairies and Elves! Gone is the night, Shadows grow thin, Branches are stirr'd; Rouse up yourselves, Sing to the light, Fairies, begin, -- There goes a bird! For dreams are now fading, Old thoughts in new morning; Dull spectres and goblins To dungeon must fly. The starry night changeth, Its low stars are setting, Its lofty stars dwindle And hide in the sky. Fairies, awake! Light on the hills! Blossom and grass Tremble with dew ; Gambols the snake, Merry bird shrills, Honey-bees pass, Morning is new. Pure joy of the cloudlets, All rippled in crimson ! Afar over world's edge The night-fear is roll'd; O look how the Great One Uplifts himself kingly; At once the wide morning Is flooded with gold! Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear. Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng ! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear. The merle and the skylark Will hush for our chorus, Quick wavelets of music, Begin them anon! Good-luck comes to all things That hear us and hearken, -- Our myriads of voices Commingling in one. Golden, golden Light unfolding, Busily, merrily, work and play, In flowery meadows, And forest-shadows, All the length of a summer day! All the length of a summer day! Sprightly, lightly, Sing we rightly! Moments brightly hurry away ! Fruit-tree blossoms, And roses' bosoms, -- Clear blue sky of a summer day! Dear blue sky of a summer day ! Springlets, brooklets, Greeny nooklets, Hill and valley, and salt-sea spray ! Comrade rovers, Fairy lovers, -- All the length of a summer day ! All the livelong summer day !
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Authorship:
- by William Allingham (1824 - 1889), no title, appears in Songs, Ballads and Stories, in Prince Brightkin, first published 1877 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Fairy dawn", published 1913 [soprano, SSAA chorus, and chamber orchestra], from Fairy Day, no. 1. [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-19
Line count: 69
Word count: 270