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Text:May song
Tune:[O welcome, dear and lovely May!]

25. May song

1 O welcome, dear and lovely May!
I never knew so sweet a day!
The sky is blue, and soft the breeze,
The field is green, and green the trees.

2 The nightingale and sweet lark sing,
The beetle chirps, the lambkins spring;
On great and small, and man and child,
Falls warm and bright, the sunbeam mild.

3 How free is every living thing,
The bird that spreads his airy wing,
And I, who sit on grassy mound,
Where joyful songs of birds resound.

4 What splendor fills the world below!
How great the Lord who made it so!
And here, and far as space may be,
It tells its Maker's majesty!

5 To him I consecrate my joy!
And pleasure sweet, my thanks employ,
To him who fills the world with light,
And makes this time so far and bright!

Text Information
First Line: O welcome, dear and lovely May!
Title: May song
Publication Date: 1897
Tune Information
Name: [O welcome, dear and lovely May!]
Key: G Major or modal



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