by John Donne (1572 - 1631)
Through Thy submitting all, to blows
Language: English
Through Thy submitting all, to blows Thy face, Thy robes to spoil, Thy fame to scorn, All ways, which rage, or justice knows, And by which Thou couldst show that Thou wast born ; And through Thy gallant humbleness Which Thou in death didst show, Dying before Thy soul they could express ; Deliver us from death, by dying so To this world, ere this world do bid us go.
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Authorship:
- by John Donne (1572 - 1631), no title, appears in A Litany, no. 20 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Richard Rodney Bennett (1936 - 2012), "Litanie XX", published 1965 [chorus a cappella], from Verses, no. 2. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Ernst Křenek (1900 - 1991), "Litanie XX", 1944, published 1954, from Five Prayers for Women's Voices over the Pater Noster as Cantus Firmus [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-08
Line count: 9
Word count: 71