Into the sunshine,
Full of the light,
Leaping and flashing
From morn [till]1 night;

Into the moonlight,
Whiter than snow,
Waving so flower-like
When the winds blow;

Into the starlight
Rushing in spray,
Happy at midnight,
Happy by day;

Ever in motion,
Blithesome and cheery,
Still climbing [heavenward]2,
Never aweary;

Glad of all weathers,
Still seeming best,
Upward or downward.
Motion thy rest;

Full of a nature
Nothing can tame,
[Changed]3 every moment,
Ever the same;

Ceaseless aspiring,
Ceaseless content,
Darkness or sunshine
Thy element;

Glorious fountain.
Let my heart be
Fresh, changeful, constant,
Upward, like thee!

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¹ Stöhr: "to"
² Stöhr: "heavenwards"
³ Stöhr: "Chang'd"

Text Authorship:

• by James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), "The Fountain", from Poems, first published 1844 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Henry Leland Clarke (1907 - 1992), "Into the Sunshine", published 1916 [ high voice or medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), "The Fountain" [sung text not yet checked]
• by William Gardiner Hammond (1874 - 1945), "Song of the Fountain", published 1908 [ high voice or low voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (1863 - 1932), "The Fountain" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Harvey Worthington Loomis (1865 - 1930), "The Fountain" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ann Sheppard Mounsey (1811 - 1891), as Ann Sheppard Bartholomew, "The Fountain", subtitle: "Song ", published 1870 [ voice and piano ], London : J. Shepherd [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lucien H. Southard (1827 - 1881), "The Fountain", published 1854 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Richard Stöhr (1874 - 1967), "The Fountain", op. 91 (Twelve Songs) no. 4 (1943-1944) [ voice and piano ], unpublished; manuscript at Saint Michael's College Archives and available in scanned form at the Petrucci Music Library [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Samuel Prowse Warren (1841 - 1915), "The Fountain" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Harold Ernest Watts , "The fountain", published 1936 [ unison chorus, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

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