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by Velma Hitchcock (1900 - 1938)

O lovely world
Language: English 
O world that we have known,
How thou art changed.
The fickle wind is hushed, the wild bird flown,
Where flow'rs once shed their color weeds are grown,
How thou art changed, world that we have known,

O world that we have lost,
We loved thee well
with summer at thy breast, even when the frost
claimed thee at length for winter to our cost...
We loved thee well, o world that we have lost.

O world of our delight,
O lovely world,
Tomorrow waits beyond the bend of night,
and there is naught that time cannot requite,
O lovely world, O world of our delight.

Text Authorship:

  • by Velma Hitchcock (1900 - 1938) [author's text not yet checked 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 Ernest Charles (1895 - 1984), "O lovely world" [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 106

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