Two Herbert Settings, for chorus

by Randall Thompson (1899 - 1984)

1. Antiphon  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Let all the world in every corner sing,
My God and King!

The heavens are not too high,
His praise may thither fly:
The earth is not too low,
His praises there may grow.

Let all the world in every corner sing,
My God and King!

The church with Psalms must shout.
No door can keep them out:
But above all, the heart
Must bear the longest part.

Let all the world in every corner sing,
My God and King!

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2. Bitter‑Sweet  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Ah, my dear angry Lord,	
  Since Thou dost love, yet strike;	
Cast down, yet help afford;	
  Sure I will do the like.	
 
I will complain, yet praise;
  I will bewail, approve:	
And all my sour-sweet days	
  I will lament, and love.

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Confirmed with Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse, ed. by Henry Charles Beeching, 1903.


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Total word count: 121