Calm soul of all things! make it mine
To feel, amid the city's jar,
That there abides a peace of thine,
Man did not make, and cannot mar.
[ ... ]
The will to neither strive nor cry,
The power to feel with others give!
Calm, calm me more! nor let me die
Before I have begun to live.
Three Motets
Song Cycle by Trevor Hold (1939 - 2004)
?. Calm soul of all things  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), "Lines written in Kensington Gardens", appears in Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, first published 1852
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