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1. Earth is waking, day is breaking!
Darkness from the hills has flown;
Pale with terror, trembling Error
Flies forever from her throne!
Up, to labor, friend and neighbor,
Hope and work with all thy might;
Heav’n is near thee, God will see thee,
He doth ever bless the right.
2. Earth is waking, day is breaking!
Fellow toiler, bend thine ear;
Hear ye not the angels speaking
Words of love and words of cheer?
Then to labor, friend and neighbor,
With thy soul’s resistless might;
Never fear thee, God is near thee,
He doth ever bless the right.
John Zundel's BEECHER (named after Henry Ward Beecher, his pastor) was first published in his Christian Heart Songs (1870) as a setting for Charles Wesley's "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" (568). The tune is also known as ZUNDEL. Approximating the shape of a rounded bar form (AA'BA'), BEECHER is…
Display Title: Earth Is Waking, Day Is BreakingFirst Line: Earth is waking, day is breaking!Tune Title: AUSTRIAAuthor: AnonymousMeter: 87.87 DSource: In The Psalms of Life, edited by John S. Adams (Boston, Massachusetts: Oliver Ditson, 1857), number 295
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