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Favorite Songs from the New American Opera, "Uncle Tom" Libretto by Dexter Smith. Music by Geo. Lowell Tracy. Boston: Louis H. Ross & Co., 1887.  Courtesy Sheet Music Collection BROWN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY [Dedicated "To W. J. McLaughlin."] THE MUSIC FOR THIS SONG IS AVAILABLE AT BROWN'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC 1850-1920 -- AN EXHIBIT AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS' AMERICAN MEMORY ARCHIVE |
1. Over the mountain of sorrow, There is a valley of rest, Ours but to wait for the morrow, 'Ere we shall dwell with the blest. Upward and onward, tho' troubled, Let us go forth and be brave, Knowing that joys have been doubled When we have gone past the grave. Over the mountain of sorrow, There is a valley of rest, Ours but to wait for the morrow, Ere we shall dwell with the blest. 2. Courage! keep on to the ending, St[e]p after step of the way, Shadow with sun although blending, Can not shut out the whole day. Far up the mountain is brightness, Whence the dark clouds have unrolled, Where the pure angel of whiteness Opens the gateway of gold. Soon shall we reach the bright portal, And with the blest enter in To God's great spirits immortal, Wash'd from the contact with sin. |
