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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408392" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sydney Exhibition Cantata</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Songs of morning, with your breath<br>Sing the darkness now to death;<br>Radiant river, beaming bay,<br>Fair as Summer, shine to-day;<br>Flying torrent, falling slope, ~Chorus~<br>Wear the face as bright as Hope;<br>Wind and woodland, hill and sea,<br>Lift your voices - sing for glee!<br>Greet the guests your fame has won -<br>Put your brightest garments on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>~Recitative and Chorus~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo, they come - the lords unknown,<br>Sons of Peace, from every zone!<br>See above our waves unfurled<br>All the flags of all the world!<br>North and south and west and east<br>Gather in to grace our feast.<br>Shining nations! let them see<br>How like England we can be.<br>Mighty nations! let them view<br>Sons of generous sires in you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>~Solo - Tenor~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the days that sound afar,<br>Sound, and shine like star by star;<br>By the grand old years aflame<br>With the fires of England's fame -<br>Heirs of those who fought for right<br>When the world's wronged face was white -<br>Meet these guests your fortune sends,<br>As your fathers met their friends;<br>Let the beauty of your race<br>Glow like morning in your face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Part II</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>~Solo - Bass~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where now a radiant city stands,<br>The dark oak used to wave,<br>The elfin harp of lonely lands<br>Above the wild man's grave;<br>Through windless woods, one clear, sweet stream<br>(Sing soft and very low)<br>Stole like the river of a dream<br>A hundred years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>~Solo - Alto~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon the hills that blaze to-day<br>With splendid dome and spire,<br>The naked hunter tracked his prey,<br>And slumbered by his fire.<br>Within the sound of shipless seas<br>The wild rose used to blow<br>About the feet of royal trees,<br>A hundred years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>~Solo - Soprano~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! haply on some mossy slope,<br>Against the shining springs,<br>In those old days the angel Hope<br>Sat down with folded wings;<br>Perhaps she touched in dreams sublime,<br>In glory and in glow,<br>The skirts of this resplendent time,<br>A hundred years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Part III</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>~Children~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A gracious morning on the hills of wet<br>And wind and mist her glittering feet has set;<br>The life and heat of light have chased away<br>Australia's dark, mysterious yesterday.<br>A great, glad glory now flows down and shines<br>On gold-green lands where waved funereal pines.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>~Solo - Soprano~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And hence a fair dream goes before our gaze,<br>And lifts the skirts of the hereafter days,<br>And sees afar, as dreams alone can see,<br>The splendid marvel of the years to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Part IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>~Basses and Chorus~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father, All-Bountiful, humbly we bend to Thee;<br>Heads are uncovered in sight of Thy face.<br>Here, in the flow of the psalms that ascend to Thee,<br>Teach us to live for the light of Thy grace.<br>Here, in the pause of the anthems of praise to Thee,<br>Master and Maker - pre-eminent Friend -<br>Teach us to look to Thee - give all our days to Thee,<br>Now and for evermore, world without end!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Kendall">Henry Kendall</a><div class=q>
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Sing the darkness now to death;
Radiant river, beaming bay,
Fair as Summer, shine to-day;
Flying torrent, falling slope, ~Chorus~
Wear the face as bright as Hope;
Wind and woodland, hill and sea,
Lift your voices..."></div>
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