Italian Coloratura Soprano Amelita GALL-CURCI: Lo, here the gentle lark (1919)

Italian Coloratura Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963) / Lo, Here the Gentle Lark (Bishop) / Manuel Berenguer - flute / Recorded: October 4, 1919

Lo, here the gentle lark ~

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), from "Venus and Adonis" / set to music by Henry Rowley Bishop (1785-1855)

Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest,
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high,
And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast
The sun ariseth in his majesty;
Who doth the world so gloriously behold
That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.

Venus salutes him with this fair good-morrow:
'O thou clear god, and patron of all light,
From whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow
The beauteous influence that makes him bright,
There lives a son that suck'd an earthly mother,
May lend thee light, as thou dost lend to other.'

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