by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
A Spirit passed before me
Language: English
A spirit passed before me: I beheld The face of Immortality unveiled — Deep Sleep came down on every eye save mine — And there it stood, — all formless — but divine: Along my bones the creeping flesh did quake; And as my damp hair stiffened, thus it spake; "Is man more just than God? Is man more pure Than he who deems even Seraphs insecure? Creatures of clay — vain dwellers in the dust! The moth survives you, and are ye more just? Things of a day! you wither ere the night, Heedless and blind to Wisdom's wasted light!"
Authorship:
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "A spirit passed before me" [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 Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "A Spirit passed before me", op. 323 (Sieben Lieder nach George Lord Byron) no. 7 (2021) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2021-09-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 101