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© by Nick Peros (b. 1963)

Time is sleeping
Language: English 
Time is sleeping
In stillness weeping its fall
For Heaven is calling my soul 
to come and walk upon forever 
to behold that which will never fade
and Thy will be done, I will come.

I am making my way to the place beyond the stars
    Past the wind, where all things end and begin
And I am near, for I can hear the single Voice
    Which sits enthroned, and sings of home
As it calls my name.
but Time stirs awake and my joy does delay.

Soon Time will pass
     and I will at last
take wing.

Text Authorship:

  • by Nick Peros (b. 1963), copyright © by Nick Peros, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Ronald A. Beckett , "Time is sleeping", 2014 [ voice and piano ], from Three spiritual poems of Nick Peros, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nick Peros (b. 1963), "Time is sleeping" [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Nick Peros

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 98

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