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[The shades of night were falling fast]
Appears in 2 hymnals Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 16543 23117 51641 Used With Text: Upidee
[The shades of night were falling fast]
Upidee
Hymnal: Songs of Service. Rev. ed. #a142 (1948) First Line: The shades of night were falling fast Refrain First Line: Upideei, deei, da Lyrics: 1 The shades of night were falling fast,
Tral la la, Tral la la,
As thro' an Alpine village passed,
Tral la la la la!
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice
A banner with the strange device,
Chorus:
Upideei, deei, da,
Upidee, Upida,
Upideei, deei, da,
Upideeida!
*r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r -
r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r yah! yah! yah! yah!
Upideei, deei, da,
Upidee, Upida,
Upideei, deei, da,
Upideeida!
2 His brow was sad his eye beneath,
Tral la la, Tral la la,
Flash'd like a faulchion from his sheath
Tral la la la la!
And like a silver clarion rung
The accents of that unknown tongue, [Chorus]
3 "O stay," the maiden said, "and rest,"
Tral la la, Tral la la,
"Thy weary head upon my breast,"
Tral la la la la!
A tear stood in his bright blue eye,
But still he answered with a sigh, [Chorus]
4 At break of day as heavenward
Tral la la, Tral la la,
The pious monks of Saint Bernard,
Tral la la la la!
Uttered the oft repeated prayer,
A voice cried through the startled air, [Chorus]
5 A trav'ler, by the faithful hound,
Tral la la, Tral la la,
Half buried in the snow was found,
Tral la la la la!
Still grasping in his hand of ice,
That banner with the strange device, [Chorus]
* Imitating a watchman's rattle Languages: English Tune Title: [The shades of night were falling fast]
Upidee
Upidee
Hymnal: Songs of Service #142 (1918) First Line: The shades of night were falling fast Refrain First Line: Upideei, deei, da Lyrics: 1 The shades of night were falling fast,
Tral la la, Tral la la,
As thro' an Alpine village passed,
Tral la la la la!
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice
A banner with the strange device,
Chorus:
Upideei, deei, da,
Upidee, Upida,
Upideei, deei, da,
Upideeida!
*r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r -
r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r - r yah! yah! yah! yah!
Upideei, deei, da,
Upidee, Upida,
Upideei, deei, da,
Upideeida!
2 His brow was sad his eye beneath,
Tral la la, Tral la la,
Flash'd like a faulchion from his sheath
Tral la la la la!
And like a silver clarion rung
The accents of that unknown tongue, [Chorus]
3 "O stay," the maiden said, "and rest,"
Tral la la, Tral la la,
"Thy weary head upon my breast,"
Tral la la la la!
A tear stood in his bright blue eye,
But still he answered with a sigh, [Chorus]
4 At break of day as heavenward
Tral la la, Tral la la,
The pious monks of Saint Bernard,
Tral la la la la!
Uttered the oft repeated prayer,
A voice cried through the startled air, [Chorus]
5 A trav'ler, by the faithful hound,
Tral la la, Tral la la,
Half buried in the snow was found,
Tral la la la la!
Still grasping in his hand of ice,
That banner with the strange device, [Chorus]
* Imitating a watchman's rattle Languages: English Tune Title: [The shades of night were falling fast]
Upidee
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 - 1882 Author of "Upidee" Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth , D.C.L. was born at Portland, Maine, Feb. 27, 1807, and graduated at Bowdoin College, 1825. After residing in Europe for four years to qualify for the Chair of Modern Languages in that College, he entered upon the duties of the same. In 1835 he removed to Harvard, on his election as Professor of Modern Languages and Belles-Lettres. He retained that Professorship to 1854. His literary reputation is great, and his writings are numerous and well known. His poems, many of which are as household words in all English-speaking countries, display much learning and great poetic power. A few of these poems and portions of others have come into common use as hymns, but a hymn-writer in the strict sense of that term he was not and never claimed to be. His pieces in common use as hymns include:—
1. Alas, how poor and little worth. Life a Race. Translated from the Spanish of Don Jorge Manrique (d. 1479), in Longfellow's Poetry of Spain, 1833.
2. All is of God; if He but wave His hand. God All and in All. From his poem "The Two Angels," published in his Birds of Passage, 1858. It is in the Boston Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, &c.
3. Blind Bartimeus at the gate. Bartimeus. From his Miscellaneous Poems, 1841, into G. W. Conder's 1874 Appendix to the Leeds Hymn Book.
4. Christ to the young man said, "Yet one thing more." Ordination. Written for his brother's (S. Longfellow) ordination in 1848, and published in Seaside and Fireside, 1851. It was given in an altered form as "The Saviour said, yet one thing more," in H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855.
5. Sown the dark future through long generations. Peace. This, the closing part of his poem on "The Arsenal at Springfield," published in his Belfrey of Bruges, &c, 1845, was given in A Book of Hymns, 1848, and repeated in several collections.
6. Into the silent land. The Hereafter. A translation from the German.
7. Tell me not in mournful numbers. Psalm of Life. Published in his Voices of the Night, 1839, as "A Psalm of Life: What the heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist." It is given in several hymnals in Great Britain and America. In some collections it begins with st. ii., "Life is real! Life is earnest."
The universal esteem in which Longfellow was held as a poet and a man was marked in a special manner by his bust being placed in that temple of honour, Westminster Abbey. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907), p. 685
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