Gloriously wasteful, O my Lord, art thou! Sunset faints after sunset into the night, Splendorously dying from thy window-sill --forever. [Sad our poverty doth bow Before the riches of thy making might: Sweep from thy space thy systems at thy will -- In thee the sun sets every sunset still.]1
Gloriously wasteful
Set by M. Ryan Taylor (b. 1972), "Gloriously wasteful", 2003 [ voice and piano ], from Leafs from the Diary of an Old Soul, no. 3  [sung text checked 1 time]
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
Authorship:
- by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905), no title, appears in A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul, Entry for March Second, first published 1880
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[And]1 in the perfect time, [O perfect God,]1 When we are in our [home, our]1 natal home, [When joy shall carry every sacred load, And from its life and peace no heart shall roam,]1 What if thou make us able to make like thee -- To light with moons, to clothe with greenery, To hang gold sunsets o'er a rose and purple sea!
Authorship:
- by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905), no title, appears in A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul, Entry for March 3, first published 1880
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Then [to his neighbour one]1 may call out, "Come! Brother, come hither -- I would show you a thing;" And lo, a vision of his imagining, [Informed of thought which else had rested dumb, Before the neighbour's truth-delighted eyes, In the great æther of existence rise,]2 And [two hearts each]3 to each the closer cling!
Authorship:
- by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905), no title, appears in A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul, Entry for March 4, first published 1880
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Taylor: "one to his neighbor"
2 omitted by Taylor.
3 Taylor: "each soul"
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