Ossian's address to the sun (Legh Richmond)

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• (Posted 2021-10-04)  CPDL #66052: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-10-04).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 272 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Ossian's address to the sun
Composer: Legh Richmond
Lyricist: James Macpherson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATBB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1796
Description: Printed on behalf of the Harmonic Society of Cambridge.

Original text and translations

English text

Thou who rollest in the firmament, round as the shield of my fathers,
whence is thy girdle of glory, O sun, anf thy light everlasting?
Forth thou comest in thy awful beauty; the stars at thy rising haste to their azure pavilions;
The moon sinks pale in the waters, but thou movest alone.
Who dareth to wander beside thee? Oaks of the mountain decay and the hard rock crumbles asunder;
ocean shrinks and grows again; lost is the moon in the heavens;
whilst thou remainest the same, to rejoice in thy brightness.
Although laden with storms be the wind, loud thunders be rolling;
though lightnings be glaring around, thou lookest from the clouds in thy beauty,
laughing at the storm.