Sydney Exhibition Cantata Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFG C HHIIJJEEKK L MMNNOOPPQQ R S TUTUVWVW W BXBLYWYW W DZDZA2WA2W R F B2B2BBC2C2 W D2D2EE U C EQEQEE2EE2| Songs of morning with your breath | A |
| Sing the darkness now to death | A |
| Radiant river beaming bay | B |
| Fair as Summer shine to day | B |
| Flying torrent falling slope Chorus | C |
| Wear the face as bright as Hope | D |
| Wind and woodland hill and sea | E |
| Lift your voices sing for glee | E |
| Greet the guests your fame has won | F |
| Put your brightest garments on | G |
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| Recitative and Chorus | C |
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| Lo they come the lords unknown | H |
| Sons of Peace from every zone | H |
| See above our waves unfurled | I |
| All the flags of all the world | I |
| North and south and west and east | J |
| Gather in to grace our feast | J |
| Shining nations let them see | E |
| How like England we can be | E |
| Mighty nations let them view | K |
| Sons of generous sires in you | K |
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| Solo Tenor | L |
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| By the days that sound afar | M |
| Sound and shine like star by star | M |
| By the grand old years aflame | N |
| With the fires of England's fame | N |
| Heirs of those who fought for right | O |
| When the world's wronged face was white | O |
| Meet these guests your fortune sends | P |
| As your fathers met their friends | P |
| Let the beauty of your race | Q |
| Glow like morning in your face | Q |
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| Part II | R |
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| Solo Bass | S |
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| Where now a radiant city stands | T |
| The dark oak used to wave | U |
| The elfin harp of lonely lands | T |
| Above the wild man's grave | U |
| Through windless woods one clear sweet stream | V |
| Sing soft and very low | W |
| Stole like the river of a dream | V |
| A hundred years ago | W |
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| Solo Alto | W |
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| Upon the hills that blaze to day | B |
| With splendid dome and spire | X |
| The naked hunter tracked his prey | B |
| And slumbered by his fire | L |
| Within the sound of shipless seas | Y |
| The wild rose used to blow | W |
| About the feet of royal trees | Y |
| A hundred years ago | W |
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| Solo Soprano | W |
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| Ah haply on some mossy slope | D |
| Against the shining springs | Z |
| In those old days the angel Hope | D |
| Sat down with folded wings | Z |
| Perhaps she touched in dreams sublime | A2 |
| In glory and in glow | W |
| The skirts of this resplendent time | A2 |
| A hundred years ago | W |
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| Part III | R |
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| Children | F |
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| A gracious morning on the hills of wet | B2 |
| And wind and mist her glittering feet has set | B2 |
| The life and heat of light have chased away | B |
| Australia's dark mysterious yesterday | B |
| A great glad glory now flows down and shines | C2 |
| On gold green lands where waved funereal pines | C2 |
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| Solo Soprano | W |
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| And hence a fair dream goes before our gaze | D2 |
| And lifts the skirts of the hereafter days | D2 |
| And sees afar as dreams alone can see | E |
| The splendid marvel of the years to be | E |
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| Part IV | U |
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| Basses and Chorus | C |
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| Father All Bountiful humbly we bend to Thee | E |
| Heads are uncovered in sight of Thy face | Q |
| Here in the flow of the psalms that ascend to Thee | E |
| Teach us to live for the light of Thy grace | Q |
| Here in the pause of the anthems of praise to Thee | E |
| Master and Maker pre eminent Friend | E2 |
| Teach us to look to Thee give all our days to Thee | E |
| Now and for evermore world without end | E2 |
Henry Kendall
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