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Calm soul of all things! make it mine
To feel, amid the city's jar,
That there abides a peace of thine,
Man did not make, and cannot mar.
The will to neither strive nor cry,
The power to feel with others give!
Calm, calm me more! nor let me die
Before I have begun to live.
Three Motets
Song Cycle by Trevor Hold (1939 - 2004)
?. Calm soul of all things [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), "Lines written in Kensington Gardens", appears in Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, first published 1852
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