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Two songs , opus 26

by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)

1. In the highlands
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
In the highlands, in the country places,	
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,	
    And the young fair maidens
        Quiet eyes;
Where essential silence cheers and blesses,
And for ever in the hill-recesses
    Her more lovely music
        Broods and dies —

O to mount again where erst I haunted;
Where the old red hills are bird-enchanted,
    And the low green meadows
        Bright with sward;
And when even dies, the million-tinted,
And the night has come, and planets glinted,
    Lo, the valley hollow
        Lamp-bestarr'd!

O to dream, O to awake and wander
There, and with delight to take and render,
    Through the trance of silence,
        Quiet breath!
Lo! for there, among the flowers and grasses,
Only the mightier movement sounds and passes;
    Only winds and rivers,
        Life and death.

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "In the highlands", appears in Songs of Travel and other verses, no. 15, first published 1896

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First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, December 1894

2. Over the land is April
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Over the land is April,
Over my heart a rose;
Over the high, brown mountain
The sound of singing goes.
Say, love, do you hear me,
Hear my sonnets ring?
Over the high, brown mountain,
Love, do you hear me sing?

By highway, love, and byway
The snows succeed the rose.
Over the high, brown mountain
The wind of winter blows.
Say, love, do you hear me,
Hear my sonnets ring?
Over the high, brown mountain,
Love, do you hear me, do you hear, 
Do you hear the song of spring?

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Over the land is April"

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