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by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

From "Paracelsus"
 (Sung text for setting by C. Ives)
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Language: English 
For God is glorified in man,
And to man's glory vowed I soul and limb.
Yet, constituted thus, and thus endowed, I failed.
I gazed on power till I grew blind...
What wonder if I saw no way to shun despair?
The power I sought seemed God's...
I learned my own deep error;
And what proportion love should hold
with power in man's right constitution;
Always preceding power, 
And with much power, always, always much more love...

Composition:

    Set to music by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "From "Paracelsus"", 1921

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), no title, appears in Paracelsus, Part V

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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