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74 song texts, 238 settings, 63 placeholders, and 22 translations (with modifications to 179 texts and 247 settings) have been added as follows:

    2026-09-07
    • Horch, der Abendglocke Ton! (Text: Emanuel Geibel)
    • A total of 1 text or placeholder was added.
    • A total of 1 text was modified.
    2026-09-06
    • Marguerite (Charles Lüders) (Text: Anonymous)
    • The Fisher's House (Kate Janzen) (Text: Anonymous after Heinrich Heine) [x]
    • Am Rheine ist Leben, am Rheine ist Lust (Text: Lina Draht-Pless)
    • Weisses Kreuz im roten Feld (Text: J.S. Moser)
    • Awake, My Soul, And Sing! (Judith Herrington) (Text: Anonymous after Abram Joseph Ryan)
    • The Stars (Penny Rodriguez) (Text: Mary Mapes Dodge)
    • Born in a Song (Judith Herrington) (Text: Bianca Chamusco) [x]
    • I Want To Walk As A Child Of The Light (Kathleen Armstrong Thomerson) (Text: Kathleen Armstrong Thomerson) [x]
    • If My Voice Had Wings (Judith Herrington) [x]
    • Out of the silences wake me a song (Text: Abram Joseph Ryan)
    • What Is Water? (Judith Herrington) (Text: Hilda Conkling) [x]
    • Born In A Symphony (Judith Herrington) (Text: Bianca Chamusco) [x]
    • A total of 29 settings were added.
    • A total of 12 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 13 texts were modified.
    • A total of 30 settings were modified.
    2026-09-05
    • Far, far in the East, where shadows fall on the hills of the Holy Land (Madeleine Dring) (Text: Daniel Ferguson Aitken)
    • Herbst-Sonnabend (Text: Wilhelm Ruess , as Severus)
    • The Blooming Bright Star of Belle Isle (Debra Scroggins) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
    • What Was I Made For? (Jennifer Lucy Cook) (Text: Billie Eilish)
    • Translation: He seems to me to be like the gods that man who sits opposite you  ENG (Text: Avery Springer after Sappho) ⊗
    • A seagull's shadow (Clare Maclean) (Text: Gillis Maclean) [x]
    • The Tide (Clare Maclean) (Text: James Keir Baxter) [x]
    • A Love Song (Nancy Ellen Telfer) (Text: William Fitz Hawley)
    • Distance (Clare Maclean) (Text: Gillis Maclean) [x]
    • Talismans (Clare Maclean) (Text: John Carroll) [x]
    • I get High on Butterflies, (Nancy Ellen Telfer) (Text: Joe Rosenblatt)
    • Heimkehr (Text: Heinrich Leuthold)
    • Orange is a tiger lily (Ruth Watson Henderson) (Text: Mary O'Neill)
    • Above the water (Clare Maclean) (Text: John Carroll) [x]
    • This is a poem for autumn (Clare Maclean) (Text: Janet Paterson Frame) [x]
    • We Welcome Summer (Clare Maclean) (Text: Michael Leunig) [x]
    • Hope There Is (Clare Maclean) (Text: Oodgeroo Noonuccal, née Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska , as Oodgeroo Nunuccal)
    • They Are Mother (Jennifer Lucy Cook)
    • Chasing the Northern Lights (Nancy Ellen Telfer) [x]
    • Translation: Le nid modèle  FRE (after Knut Hamsun: En Birk og en Hassel i skogen)
    • O menino ruivo (Esther Scliar) (Text: Reynaldo Jardim Silveira) [x]
    • The Enchantment (Madeleine Dring) (Text: Thomas Otway)
    • Red (Ruth Watson Henderson) (Text: Mary Devenport O'Neill)
    • Busca da identidade entre o homem e o rio (Esther Scliar) (Text: José Carlos Capinam) [x]
    • The Blue Eye of God (Nancy Ellen Telfer) (Text: Barbara Powis) [x]
    • os anthos chortou : as the flower of the grass (Clare Maclean) (Text: Sappho) [x]
    • Rain (Clare Maclean) [x]
    • The Reconcilement (Madeleine Dring) (Text: John Sheffield)
    • Leise rieselt der Schnee (Clare Maclean) (Text: Eduard Ebel)
    • Through The Dark (Andrea Ramsey) (Text: Helen Adams Keller) [x]
    • Wind and the Flower (Nancy Ellen Telfer) (Text: Duncan Campbell Scott)
    • Gold is a metal (Ruth Watson Henderson) (Text: Mary Devenport O'Neill)
    • Mein Heimatland, das liebe, traute (Text: Johannes Rehmke)
    • Heartstrings (Debra Scroggins) (Text: Jenice Meagher Cutler) [x]
    • All the stars in the sky (Alice Parker) [x]
    • Pulses from Titration (Shara Nova) (Text: Shara Nova)
    • Winter flowers (Nancy Ellen Telfer) (Text: Dorothea Rickner) [x]
    • White is a dove (Ruth Watson Henderson) (Text: Mary O'Neill)
    • Prinzessin Sabbath (Text: Heinrich Heine)
    • Body Talk (Nancy Ellen Telfer) [x]
    • The Man Under the Bed (Nancy Ellen Telfer) (Text: Margaret Holley)
    • Webster (Carol Barnett) (Text: Isaac Watts)
    • Praia do fim do mundo (Esther Scliar) (Text: Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles) [x]
    • Translation: Princess Sabbath  ENG (Text: Edgar Alfred Bowring after Heinrich Heine)
    • [No title] (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • Ancient sandhills (Clare Maclean) (Text: John Carroll)
    • A esquila (Esther Scliar) (Text: Laci Osório) [x]
    • A total of 90 settings were added.
    • A total of 47 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 46 texts were modified.
    • A total of 89 settings were modified.
    2026-09-04
    • We're whirligig beetles (Ruth Watson Henderson) (Text: Paul Fleischman)
    • A Woman’s Dream (Debra Scroggins) (Text: Anonymous after Jaya Sekar) [x] ⊗
    • Butterfly (Nancy Ellen Telfer)
    • Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy (Laura Farnell) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    • Wind (Carolyn Jennings) (Text: Joan Wolf Prefontaine)
    • [No title] (Text: Hafis) [x]
    • Children of the Rainbow (Rosephanye Powell) (Text: Burnece Walker Brunson) [x]
    • Adventures in Color (Ruth Watson Henderson) (Text: Mary Devenport O'Neill)
    • Translation: O Thou, my soul, my very heart  ENG (Text: Anonymous after Friedrich Rückert)
    • Translation: As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God  ENG (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
    • Fireflies (Ruth Watson Henderson) (Text: Paul Fleischman)
    • A la Puerta del Cielo (Melissa Roth Young) (Text: Volkslieder )
    • Sicut Cervus (Rosephanye Powell)
    • Translation: At the gate of heaven little shoes they are selling  ENG (Text: Anonymous after Volkslieder )
    • Every Child Has Known God (Mark Sirett) (Text: Daniel Ladinsky after Hafis) ⊗
    • Translation: Heaven standing open  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Offner Himmel (Steht ein Mal nur dir offen))
    • Translation: My Alsace! God greet you!  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Gruß an das Elsaß (Mein Elsaß! grüß dich Gott!))
    • Translation: Je vais, flânant dans la forêt  FRE (after Knut Hamsun: Ved nyingen (Jeg går og pusler i skogen))
    • The Thunderstorm (Laura Farnell) (Text: Eugene Judson Hall)
    • Translation: Brisk and joyful!  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Frisch und froh! (Vom Wildbach lernet wieder singen))
    • Pennin Kanavu (Text: Jaya Sekar) [x]
    • Translation: Laisse le printemps jouer sur la Terre  FRE (after Knut Hamsun: Jeg ved ikke hvordan)
    • Pauvre sens et pauvre mémoire (Maurice Thiriet) (Text: Rutebeuf)
    • A total of 27 settings were added.
    • A total of 23 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 29 texts were modified.
    • A total of 27 settings were modified.
    2026-09-03
    • It is not for her even brow (Laura Farnell) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
    • Translation: J’erre à travers une lande brune  FRE (after Knut Hamsun: Jeg vanker indover det brune fjæld)
    • Birds are singing, woods are ringing (Eleanor Joanne Daley) (Text: L.F. Cole)
    • A blossom pink, a blossom blue (Kate Crellin) (Text: Edward Smyth Jones)
    • Translation: The singer  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Der Sänger (Ei! wie hat's der Sänger gut!))
    • My love it should be silent, being deep— (Laura Farnell) (Text: Theodosia Garrison)
    • Life is either a daring adventure or nothing (Text: Helen Adams Keller)
    • When the curtains of night are pinned back by the stars (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, Eleanor Joanne Daley) (Text: William Shakespeare Hays)
    • In the Mist (Kate Crellin) (Text: Kate Crellin) [x]
    • Translation: The folksong  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Das Volkslied (Wie durch Sturm und Wind))
    • Translation: When Phoebus's bright radiance has yet to appear  ENG (after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist: Phoebi claro nondum orto iubare)
    • Translation: Au lointain  FRE (after Knut Hamsun: Borte (Du er som en liden Due))
    • Meet Me in the Afterglow (Kate Crellin) (Text: Kate Crellin) [x]
    • Give me the strength and height (Laura Farnell) (Text: Hildegarde Hawthorne)
    • Translation: Greeting to the Germans in America  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Gruß an die Deutschen in Amerika (Das eine deutsche Vaterland))
    • A total of 19 settings were added.
    • A total of 15 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 15 texts were modified.
    • A total of 19 settings were modified.
    2026-09-02
    • My Master from a garden rose (Eleanor Joanne Daley) (Text: Gordon Ellsworth Young)
    • Toboggan! (Mona Lyn Reese) (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
    • [No title] (Text: Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev) [x]
    • This I Will Remember (Debra Scroggins) [x]
    • She Found Light (Rachelle Bunch) (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • The Ground Stays the Same (Kate Crellin) (Text: Kate Crellin)
    • The Crown of Roses (Eleanor Joanne Daley) (Text: Percy Dearmer after Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev) ⊗
    • Afternoon, mid-August (Andrea Ramsey) (Text: Paul Fleischman)
    • Now Asia, Africa leave me, Europe seizing inflates me (Andrea Ramsey) (Text: Walt Whitman)
    • Then the Stars Will Sing (Debra Scroggins) [x]
    • Song Is Not Dead (Kate Crellin) (Text: Robert Fuller Murray)
    • Come, Renew Us (Eleanor Joanne Daley) (Text: David Adam)
    • If It Must Be (Andrea Ramsey)
    • Oh day of fire and sun (Kate Crellin) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • Decision (Debra Scroggins) [x]
    • Sing to Me (Andrea Ramsey) (Text: Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
    • Mars Over the Horizon (Debra Scroggins) (Text: David C. Dickson)
    • Grow, Little Tree (Andrea Ramsey)
    • Life's Mirror (Eleanor Joanne Daley) (Text: Madeline Bridges)
    • Translation: I once followed my maiden  ENG (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Einst ging ich meinem Mädchen nach)
    • The Bridge Builder (Eleanor Joanne Daley) (Text: Will Allen Dromgoole)
    • There Has to Be a Song (Andrea Ramsey) (Text: Bob Benson)
    • Here Inside My Heart (Andrea Ramsey) (Text: Robert Bly after António Machado)
    • A total of 35 settings were added.
    • A total of 23 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 23 texts were modified.
    • A total of 35 settings were modified.
    2026-09-01
    • Phoebi claro nondum orto iubare (Hans Henkemans, Nicola LeFanu)
    • Translation: Divine Spring permeates me  ENG (after Henri Cazalis: Le printemps divin me pénètre)
    • Lo, I am happy, for my eyes have seen (Andrea Ramsey) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • The Moth’s Serenade (Andrea Ramsey) (Text: Paul Fleischman)
    • Fredmans Sång nr 6 (Carl S. Michael Bellman) (Text: Carl S. Michael Bellman)
    • Fredmans Sång nr 41 (Carl S. Michael Bellman) (Text: Carl S. Michael Bellman)
    • Translation: Drunk with sun and space  ENG (after Henri Cazalis: Ivre de soleil et d'espace)
    • Translation: The singing of men  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Männergesang (Hei! das ist ein lustig Schwimmen))
    • Translation: My God! my spirit is broken  ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Mein Gott! zerbrochen ist mein Geist)
    • Fredmans Epistel No 82 (Carl S. Michael Bellman) (Text: Carl S. Michael Bellman)
    • El Mar (Andrea Ramsey) (Text: António Machado)
    • Blackberry Wassail (Emily Doolittle) (Text: Forrest Pierce) *
    • Fredmans Sång Nr 21 (Carl S. Michael Bellman) (Text: Carl S. Michael Bellman)
    • La Chanson du ruisseau (Jules Massenet) (Text: Antonin Lugnier) [x]
    • Je pense à toi (José Zapata y Amat) (Text: Victor Hugo) [x]
    • La Chanson du puits (Paul Bernard) (Text: Paul Bernard) [x]
    • La Carriole (Paul Bernard) (Text: Paul Bernard) [x]
    • Bouton de rose (Amelia Chambers Lehmann) (Text: Constance Marie de Théis) [x]
    • L'Aube tricolore (René Campagne) (Text: François Coppée) [x]
    • Renaissance ! (René Campagne) (Text: Suzanne Mercey) [x]
    • Amour ! (René Campagne) (Text: Suzanne Mercey) [x]
    • Nous irons si tu veux (René Campagne) (Text: Albert Victor Samain) [x]
    • Les Lucioles (René Campagne) (Text: Théo Martin) [x]*
    • Amour (René Campagne) (Text: Suzanne Mercey) [x]
    • Suzon (Jules Émile David Cohen) (Text: Paul de Chazot) [x]
    • À l'Infidèle (Raphaël Wibier) (Text: Rh. Sined) [x]
    • La bonne Vierge (Émile Spencer) (Text: Gaston Deval) [x]
    • Le Départ (Émile Spencer) (Text: Gaston Deval) [x]
    • Restons amis (Émile Delmas) (Text: Gabriélis) [x]
    • Mienne ! (Jules Massenet) (Text: Ernest Laroche) [x]
    • Tire la charrette (Georges Carel) (Text: Raoul Perroud) [x]
    • La Fondue (Georges Carel) (Text: Raoul Perroud) [x]
    • Sans contrainte (Georges Carel) (Text: Raoul Perroud) [x]
    • Si tu le veux (Eugène Vasseur) (Text: Joseph Leroux) [x]
    • Fleurs du passé (Charles de Kontski) (Text: Mme E. de V.) [x]
    • Discret Aveu (Ch. Guglielmi) (Text: Rh. Sined) [x]
    • Amour Discret (Léopold Larrieu) (Text: Eugène Mariaux) [x]
    • A request (Amy Woodforde-Finden) (Text: William Mudford)
    • A total of 38 settings were added.
    • A total of 38 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
    • A total of 52 texts were modified.
    • A total of 47 settings were modified.

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