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Domine, probasti me, et cognovisti me
Language: Latin 
1  [In finem, psalmus David.] 
   Domine, probasti me, et cognovisti me;
[ ... ]
 Intellexisti cogitationes meas de longe;
   semitam meam et funiculum meum investigasti:
[ ... ]
 Si sumpsero pennas meas diluculo, 
   et habitavero in extremis maris,
etenim illuc manus tua deducet me, 
   et tenebit me dextera tua.
Et dixi: Forsitan tenebræ conculcabunt me; 
   et nox illuminatio mea in deliciis meis.
Quia tenebræ non obscurabuntur a te, 
   et nox sicut dies illuminabitur:
   sicut tenebræ ejus, ita et lumen ejus. 
[ ... ]
Confitebor tibi, quia terribiliter magnificatus es;
   mirabilia opera tua, et anima mea cognoscit nimis.
[ ... ]
Mihi autem nimis honorificati sunt amici tui, Deus;
   nimis confortatus est principatus eorum.
Dinumerabo eos, et super arenam multiplicabuntur. 
   Exsurrexi, et adhuc sum tecum.
[ ... ]
Proba me, Deus, et scito cor meum; 
   interroga me, et cognosce semitas meas.
Et vide si via iniquitatis in me est, 
   et deduc me in via æterna.

T. Tallis sets line 17

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This text was added to the website: 2006-06-14
Line count: 50
Word count: 318

The wings of the morning
 (Sung text for setting by D. Thomas)
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Language: English  after the Latin 
1  O Lord, thou hast searched me, 
   and known me.
 ... 
  ...  
   and art acquainted with all my ways.
 ... 
 If I take the wings of the morning, 
   and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me, 
   and thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me;
   even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; 
   but the night shineth as the day:
   the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
 ... 
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
   marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
 ... 
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!
   How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: 
   when I awake, I am still with thee.
 ... 
Search me, O God, and know my heart: 
   try me, and know my thoughts:
 ...  
   and lead me in the way everlasting.

Composition:

    Set to music by David Evan Thomas (b. 1958), "The wings of the morning", 2003, lines 1, 3, 9-12, 14, 17-18, 23-24 [ medium voice, piano ]

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Researcher for this page: David Evan Thomas

This text was added to the website: 2006-06-14
Line count: 50
Word count: 436