VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Roderick Williams OBE, soloist

O, Lark, from great dark, arise!
O, lark of light,
O, lightness like a spark,
Shock ears and stun our eyes
Singing the day-rise, the day-rise, the great day-rise.

O Believer, Rejoicer, say
Before Evidence of Day
The Sun is Risen_.
Where
No sun is, come loudly in the air;
Let ear and eye prepare
To see and hear, truly to see and hear;
To hear thy three-fold welcome in the air,
To see all dazzle after long despair,
To see what none may see now, singer, singer fair, so fair.

O, lark alert, O, lark alive,
O lovely, lovely chanting arrow-lark,
Sprung like an arrow from the bow of dark,
O, lark arise
Sing the day-rise,
The great day-rise.
—Genevieve Taggard