by John Addington Symonds (1840 - 1893)
The prism of life Matches original text
Language: English
All that began with God, in God must end: All lives are garnered in His final bliss: All wills hereafter shall be one with His: When in the sea we sought, our spirits blend. Rays of pure light, which one frail prism may rend Into conflicting colours, meet and kiss With manifold attraction, yet still miss Contentment, while their kindred hues contend. Break but that three-edged glass: -- inviolate The sundered beams resume their primal state, Weaving pure light in flawless harmony. Thus decomposed, subject to love and strife, God's thought, made conscious through man's mortal life, Resumes through death the eternal unity.
Composition:
- Set to music by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "The prism of life", 2005 [ bass or baritone and piano ]
Text Authorship:
- by John Addington Symonds (1840 - 1893), "The prism of life", appears in Animi Figura, in Versöhnung, first published 1882
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-28
Line count: 14
Word count: 102