Murillo's Lesson
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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Lyrics:
As down a lone valley with cedars o’erspread,
From war’s dread confusion I pensively strayed,
The gloom from the face of fair heaven retired,
The winds hushed their murmurs, the thunders expired.
Perfumes as of Eden flowed sweetly along,
A voice as of angels enchantingly sung,
Columbia, Columbia to glory arise,
The queen of the world and the child of the skies.
Fair science her gate to thy sons shall unbar,
And the east see thy morn hide the beams of her star.
New bards and new sages unrivalled shall soar
To fame unextinguished when time is no more.
To Thee the last refuge of virtue designed,
Shall fly from all nations the best of mankind;
There grateful to heaven with transport shall bring
To Jesus, the author of nations will sing.
"Murillo's Lesson", also known as "Marilla's Lesson", "Morella's Lesson" or <br> "Morelli's Lesson" is an American march, hymn tune and air in G major, C major or Eb major. <br> The parts are played AABB or AAB in the Sacred Harp.<br> The melody can be found in a number of early 19th century American instrumental<br> tutors, where it seems to have been a staple of the fife repertoire and in period march<br> collections. It appears as early as the Thomas Nixon fife manuscript (as "Morelli's Lesson"),<br> dated c. 1776-78, from the period of the American Revolution. <br> It can also be found adapted for use in the Sacred Harp hymnal, where the indicated tune<br> was "Morelli," or "Lesson by Morelli." <br> It was adapted by fiddlers, particularly from Alabama and contiguous states, as an air or<br> march.<br> The song called "Murillo's Lesson" can be found in the 1844 Sacred Harp and the 1848 Sacred<br> Melodeon 'fa-so-la' hymnals. Lyrics were derived in part from a poem entitled "Columbia"<br> (AKA "Star of Columbia") by Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), printed in 1794. Dwight was one of<br> the “Hartford Wits,” a group of Connecticut men associated with literary work during and<br> after the American Revolution. He would go on to become president of Yale College, but was<br> a young man when he wrote his lyric “Columbia” in 1778, when he was a chaplain in<br> George Washington’s Continental Army.<br> The first strain is shared with "The Colosseum", "Harlequin Hornpipe" and "Harlequin<br> Gambols". "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine" is a distanced version of this strain.<br> It was printed in Howe's Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon (1843) and The Sacred Harp.<br>
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