# The Reply of the Messenger Bird

- Music: Augusta Browne (died 1882)
- Words: Edward Young
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6588799

## The words

I’ve come, I’ve come from the spirits’ land,  
And a treasured song is mine; I bear for the  
wounded heart a balm, And a joy for those that  
pine. The friends that ye bade on earth  
“goodbye,” With cheeks so pale and wan.  
They are there in the light of a cloudless sky,  
They are there in the light of a cloudless sky,  
And their all of grief is done.  
The chieftain that left his bow unstrung;  
The sage with his locks of snow; And the maid  
whose voice like the nightbirds rung,  
In its plaintiveness of woe; And the youth  
with the laughing eye is there; And the mother  
who left her babe. Swinging to and fro in the  
summer air, Swinging to and fro in the summer  
air, Beneath the sycamore's shade.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).