Onaway, Awake, Beloved - 1892 - Hiawatha

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia - 25 Mar 2002

Onaway, awake, beloved!
Thou the wild flower of the forest!
Thou the wild bird of the prairie!
Thou with eyes so soft and fawn like!
If thou only lookest at me, I am happy,
I am happy,
As the lilies of the prairie,
When they feel the dew upon them.
Does not all the blood within me
Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,
As the springs to meet the sunshine,
In the moon when nights are brightest?
Onaway! Onaway! Awake, beloved!
When thou art not pleased, beloved
Then my heart is sad and darkened,
As the shining river darkens,
When the clouds drop shadows on it!
When thou smilest, my beloved,
Then my troubled heart is brightened,
As in sunshine gleam the ripples
That the cold wind makes in rivers.
Smiles the earth, and smile the waters,
Smile the cloudless skies above us,
But I lose the way of smiling
When thou art no longer near me!
Does not all the blood within me
Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,
As the springs to meet the sunshine,
In the moon when nights are brightest!
Onaway! Onaway!
Does not all the blood within me
Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,
As the springs to meet the sunshine,
In the moon when nights are brightest?
Onaway! awake, awake!

Soft karaoke
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Onaway, Awake, Beloved 1892
from 'Hiawatha'
music by Frederic H. Cowen
Lyrics by Longfellow
copyright 1892 by Metzler and Co., London
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Monday 25 March 2002 at 16.38
in association with Doug Grierson
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