by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
Give me a world, to part for praise and...
Language: English
Give me a world, to part for praise and sunder. The brooks be bells; the winds, in caverns dumb, Wake fife and flute and flageolet and voice; The fire-shook earth itself be the great drum; And let the air the region's bass out thunder; The firs be violins; the reeds hautboys; Rivers, seas, icebergs fill the great score up and under!
M. Taylor sets lines 1-4, 7, 5
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- 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 December Twelfth, first published 1880 [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 M. Ryan Taylor (b. 1972), "Part for Praise", 2003, lines 1-4,7,5 [ voice and piano ], from Leafs from the Diary of an Old Soul, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-07-29
Line count: 7
Word count: 61