1961
No. 5. Day
Composed by 
Frank Lewin
Frank Lewin Text by 
William Blake
William Blake Innocence and Experience Song Collection
"Day" is the fourth song and fifth movement of Frank Lewin's song cycle Innocence and Experience, which sets seven texts of William Blake with two instrumental interludes.
Text
Day
by William Blake
The sun arises in the East,
Cloth’d in robes of blood and gold;
Swords and spears and wrath increas’d
All around his bosom roll’d,
Crown’d with warlike fires and raging desires.
Audio
“No. 5. Day” (from “Innocence and Experience”)
Helen Boatwright (soprano) & Keith Wilson (conductor)2:05