Songtexte The Fairy Queen, Act 4: Song: "When a Cruel Long Winter"- Chorus: "Hail! Great Parent of Us All" - Martyn Hill feat. John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir

When a cruel, long winter has frozen the earth
And nature imprisoned seeks in vain to be free
And nature imprisoned seeks in vain to be free
I that forth I beams to give all things a birth, Making spring for the
Plants, every flower and each tree; I that forth I beams to give all
Things a birth, Making spring for the plants, every flower
And each tree: 'Tis I who give life, warmth and vigor
To all; E'en love, who rules all things in earth and sea
Would languish and fade, and to nothing, nothing would
Fall, The world to its chaos would return, but for me
'Tis I who give life, warmth and vigor to all; E'en love, who rules
All things in earth and sea, Would languish and fade, and to nothing
Nothing would fall, The world to its chaos would return, but for me
Hail, hail great heavens!
Hail, hail great heavens, how tall!
Light and life to all, light and life to all, light
And life to all, light and life to all he brings!
Hail, hail great heavens!
Hail, hail great heavens, how tall!
Yea tall your shrine the seasons call
Yea tall your shrine the seasons call
Tall, tall who gives, tall who gives all nature birth
Tall who gives all, all, tall who gives
Tall who gives all nature birth
Tall who gives all, all, tall who gives
Tall who gives all nature birth