High in the sky (George Frederick Root)

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• (Posted 2023-12-04)  CPDL #77831:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-04).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 296 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: High in the sky
Composer: George Frederick Root
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 John Church & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

High in the summer sky,
See the white clouds sailing by;
And look, far down on the world of green
Is its beauteous shadow seen,
Flitting in its rapid flight so joyfully,
O’er the smiling meadows all so gracefully,
Ever bringing changes
Where so rapidly it ranges,
Over mountain, vale, and waving field so fair.

Light on the mountain’s brow,
See the white clouds resting now;
And look how quickly it flits away,
With the fading beams of day,
Flitting in its rapid flight so joyfully,
O’er the smiling meadows all so gracefully,
Ever bringing changes,
Where so rapidly it ranges,
Over mountain, vale, and waving field so fair.