Voices of the Prophets

Song Cycle by Alan Dudley Bush (1900 - 1995)

1. For behold
 (Sung text)

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17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth:
   and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever
   in that which I create:
   for, behold, I create Jerusalem
   a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people:
   and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days,
   nor an old man that hath not filled his days:
   for the child shall die an hundred years old;
    ... 

21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them;
   and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

22 They shall not build, and another inhabit;
   they shall not plant, and another eat:
   for as the days of a tree are the days of my people,
   and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

23  ...

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2. So at length the spirit of man
 (Sung text)

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So at length the spirit of man will reach out, and will reach out far
and wide, till it fills the whole world and the space far beyond with
the expansion of its divine greatness. Then at last most of the
chances and changes of the world will be so quickly perceived that to
him who holds this stronghold of wisdom hardly anything can happen in
his life which is unforeseen or fortuitous. He will indeed seem to be
one whose rule and dominion the stars obey, to whose command earth and
sea harken, and whom winds and tempests serve; to whom, lastly, Mother
Nature herself has surrendered, as if indeed some god had abdicated
the throne of the world and entrusted its rights, laws and
administration to him as governor.  So at length the spirit of man
will reach out till it fills the whole world with its divine greatness.

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  • by John Milton (1608 - 1674), from the oration "Against the Scholastic Philosophy"

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3. Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age!
 (Sung text)

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Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age! Set your foreheads against the
ignorant hirelings! For we have hirelings in the Camp, the Court, and
the University, who would, if they could, for ever depress mental, and
prolong corporeal war.  ...  believe Christ and His Apostles that there is a
class of men whose whole delight is in destroying.  ...

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4. Over the years
 (Sung text)

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Over the years I hear strong voices rise from the springtime of our
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