by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Thee, God, I come from, to thee go
Language: English
Thee, God, I come from, to thee go, All day long I like fountain flow From thy hand out, swayed about Motelike in thy mighty glow. What I know of thee I bless, As acknowledging thy stress On my being and as seeing Something of thy holiness. Once I turned from thee and hid, Bound on what thou hadst forbid; Sow the wind I would; I sinned; I repent of what I did. Bad I am, but yet thy child. Father, be thou reconciled, Spare thou me, since I see With thy might that thou art mild. I have life before me still And thy purpose to fulfill; Yea a debt to pay thee yet: Help me, sir, and so I will. But thou bidst, and just thou art, Me shew mercy from my heart Towards my brother, every other Man my mate and counterpart.
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Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), appears in Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse, first published 1895 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "Thee God, I come from", op. 96 no. 3 (1993), from Four Sacred Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Horace Ian Parrott (b. 1916), "Thee, God, I come from", 1977, published 1988, first performed 1983 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Thoughtful Songs, no. 2, London : Barry Brunton [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alan Ridout (b. 1934), "Thee, God, I come from", published 1969 [ soprano voices a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Thee, God", published 1974 [ SATB chorus and organ ], from Three Motets on Texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 145