The bright side (Daniel Franklin Hodges)

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• (Posted 2024-05-23)  CPDL #80769:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-23).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 366 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The bright side
Composer: Daniel Franklin Hodges
Lyricist: Willis G. Burnham
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1875 Lee & Shepard
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Original text and translations

English text

There’s sunshine and joy upon earth, my good friend,
Though it seems full of darkness and sorrow,
And the storm clouds which shadow the light of today,
May not shadow the light of the morrow.

Oh, look on the bright side and not on the dark,
Make the best of the troubles you’re meeting,
And with heart that is hopeful, grasp warmly the hand,
Which your neighbor extends, with a greeting.

Then, when he shall leave you and go on his way,
He may feel his heart warmed by your brightness,
And strengthened to bear well his crosses and pains
With a soul rising up in its lightness.

Oh, life would be happier to all, if we knew
The folly and sin of complaining;
For though sometimes its comforts seem all to have fled,
Yet great blessings are always remaining.