| Genre Categories | Songs; For 4 voices, piano; Scores featuring the voice; |
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| Work Title | There Is a Paradise On Earth |
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| Alternative. Title | There Is a Paradise On Earth. A Four-Part Song. Translated from the German of Hölty. |
| Composer | Pearsall, Robert Lucas |
| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IRP 7 |
| Key | E major |
| Librettist | Composer, after Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748–1776) |
| Language | English |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
| Piece Style | Romantic |
| Instrumentation | Alto, Tenor, 2 Bass, with piano accompaniment |
Lyrics:
There is a paradise on earth
When flow'rs, to hail the summer's birth
From tree and grass are springing;
When perfumes rise to scent the gale,
And birds, in ev'ry grove and vale,
To welcome it are singing.
But fairer still, a lovely maid,
In all the charm of youth array'd,
No aid from art requiring;
All other flow'rs we cast aside,
And gaze with joy inspired pride,
Enraptur'd and admiring.
Translated from the German:
Es ist ein halbes Himmelreich,
Wenn Paradiesesblumen gleich,
Aus Klee die Blumen dringen,
Und wenn die kleinen Vögellein,
Im Garten hier, und dort im Hayn,
Auf grünen Bäumen singen.
Doch das ist noch ein reines Weib,
Von Seele gut, und schön von Leib,
In ihrer JugendblĂĽthe.
Wir laĂźen alle Blumen stehn,
Das liebe Weibchen anzusehn,
Und freun uns ihrer GĂĽte.
Minnelied, from Sämtliche Werke (1913)
[Hölty, Ludwig Heinrich Christoph
Volume: 1, Weimar, Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen #56, p. 116]
