With thee, sweet Hope - Bridge, John Frederick

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⌛ Period → Romantic ◈ Genre → Glees

♯ Key E- major

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → ATTBB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range E-2 – C5

¶ Language → English

Measures 158

Texture mixed texture

Parts 7

Instruments Piano

Pages 17

CPDL # 68250

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2022-03-05

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Alto

B-3 – C5

Tenor I

D3 – E-4

Bass I

E-2 – E-4

Piano

E-2 – E-4

¶Lyrics / Text

With thee, sweet Hope ! resides the heavenly light That pours remotest rapture on the sight: Thine is the charm of life's bewildered way, That calls each slumbering passion into play. Waked by thy touch, I see the sister band, On tiptoe watching, start at thy command, And fly where'er thy mandate bids them steer, To pleasure's path, or glory's bright career. Primeval Hope , the Aonian Muses say, When Man and Nature mourned their first decay; When every form of death, and every woe, Shot from malignant stars to earth below; When Murder bared his arm, and rampant War Yoked the red dragons of her iron car; When Peace and Mercy, banished from the plain, Sprung on the viewless winds to heaven again; All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind, But Hope , the charmer, lingered still behind. Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe: Won by their sweets, in Nature's languid hour The way-worn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower; There, as the wild bee murmurs on the wing, What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring! What viewless forms th'Aeolian organ play, And sweep the furrowed lines of anxious thought away!