by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 - 1966)
Peace
Language: English
Peace on a thousand hills and dales, Peace in the hearts of men While kindliness reclaims the soil Where bitterness has been. The night of strife is drifting past, The storm of shell has ceased. Disrupted is the cordon fell, Sweet charity released. Forth from the shadow, swift we come Wrought in the flame together. All men as one beneath the sun In brotherhood forever.
Text Authorship:
- by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 - 1966), appears in Bronze, first published 1922, copyright status unknown [author's text not yet checked 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 Jasmine Arielle Barnes (b. 1991), "Peace", copyright © 2022 [ piano and tenor ] [sung text not yet checked]
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