Starting the day (Charles West)
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- Editor: Charles West (submitted 2020-06-24). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 130 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:I would appreciate notification by email (cghwest@yahoo.co.uk) of your intention to perform this work.
General Information
Title: Starting the day
Composer: Charles West
Lyricist: George Herbert
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SA(A)TB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2020
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Original text and translations
English text
I cannot ope mine eyes
But thou art ready there to catch
My morning soul and sacrifice,
Then we must needs for that day make a match.
My God, what is a heart ?
Silver, or gold, or precious stone,
Or star, or rainbow, or a part
Of all these things, or all of them in one ?
My God, what is a heart ?
That thou should'st it so eye and woo,
Pouring upon it all thy art,
As if that thou hadst nothing else to do ?
Indeed, man's whole estate
Amounts (and richly) to serve thee ;
He did not heaven and earth create,
Yet studies them, not him by whom they be.
Teach me thy love to know ;
That this new light which now I see
May both the work and workman show ;
Then by a sunbeam I will climb to thee.