by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
Part for Praise See original
Language: English
Give me a world, to part for praise and sunder.
The brooks be bells; the winds, in caverns dumb,
awake fife and flute and flageolet and voice;
The fire-shook earth itself be the great drum;
Rivers, seas, icebergs fill the great score up and under!
And let the air the region's bass out thunder.
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Composition:
- Set to music 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
Text 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 December Twelfth, first published 1880
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This text was added to the website: 2007-07-29
Line count: 7
Word count: 63