by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
Faith
Language: English
Doubt no longer that the Highest is the wisest and the best,
Let not all that saddens Nature blight thy hope or break thy rest,
Quail not at the fiery mountain, at the shipwreck, or the rolling
Thunder, or the rending earthquake, or the famine, or the pest!
Neither mourn if human creeds be lower than the heart’s desire!
Thro’ the gates that bar the distance comes a gleam of what is higher.
Wait till Death has flung them open, when the man will make the Maker
Dark no more with human hatreds in the glare of deathless fire!
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "Faith", appears in The Death of Œnone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems [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 Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Faith", op. 97 no. 3, published 1906 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs of Faith, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-28
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