by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907)
The sacred flame Matches original text
Language: English
Thy hand in mine, thy hand in mine, And through the world we two will go, With love before us for a sign, Our faces set to every foe. My heart in thine, my heart in thine, Through life, through happy death the same, We two will kneel before the shrine, And keep alight the sacred flame. My heart in thine, my heart in thine.
Composition:
- Set to music by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "The sacred flame", 1918, published 1918 [ voice and piano ]
Text Authorship:
- by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907), "Song", appears in Poems, no. 202, first published 1907
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 66