by Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Divine Music!
Language: English
Divine Music! Daughter of the Soul of Love Vase of bitterness and of Love Dream of the human heart, fruit of sorrow Flower of joy, fragrance and bloom of feeling Tongue of lovers, revealer of secrets Mother of the tears of hidden love Inspirer of poets, [composers, architects]1 Unity of thoughts within fragments of words Designer of love out of beauty Wine of the exulting heart in a world of dreams Heartener of warriors, and strengthener of souls Ocean of mercy and sea of tenderness O Music In your depths we deposit our hearts and souls Thou hast taught us to see with our ears And hear with our hearts.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with A Second Treasury of Kahlil Gibran, excerpt from Of Music.
1 A. Hinton: "composers,/ and architects"Text Authorship:
- by Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931), no title [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 Alistair Hinton (b. 1950), "Divine Music!", op. 13 no. 5n (1969-1977) [ high voice and string quintet ], from String Quintet, no. 5n [ sung text checked 1 time]
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