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A soul returns
Language: English 
Our translations:  SPA
Oh how my soul is longing and yearning is pining for your courts.
Christ has no body now but yours 
no feet no hands on earth but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world.
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good.
Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.
You are his feet you are his hands
You are his eyes through which he looks compassion on this world.

Christ has no body now but yours.
Christ has no body on Earth but yours.

How happy are they who dwell in your temple 
forever singing your name.
How happy the pilgrims who find their strength in you 
whose hearts are eager for the road to Zion.

Text Authorship:

  • by Bible or other Sacred Texts , adapted from Psalm 84 [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 Dolora Zajick , "A soul returns", first performed 2014 [voices, chorus, and orchestra], from the opera [selections] Roads to Zion, no. 3. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Elena María Accinelli) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Elena María Accinelli

This text was added to the website: 2016-01-16
Line count: 14
Word count: 129

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