God and the Universe (Charles Villiers Stanford)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-07). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 522 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: may be best described as SATBdiv.
- Editor: Robert Nottingham (submitted 2007-07-31). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 96 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: God and the Universe
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson, from The Death of OEnone, and Other Poems, 1892
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1906 Boosey & Co.
Description: “God and the Universe” for SATB is his arrangement of his solo song Op. 97, No. 2 (Songs of Faith). Occasionally identified as an anthem or motet, it is typically catalogued as a secular partsong—Tennyson poetry about the Greek mythological character Oenone.
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Original text and translations
English text
God and the Universe
Will my tiny spark of being wholly vanish in your deeps and heights?
Must my days be dark by reason, O ye Heavens, of your boundless nights,
Rush of Suns, and roll of systems, and your fiery clash of meteorites?
"Spirit, nearing yon dark portal at the limit of thy human state,
Fear not thou the hidden purpose of that Power which alone is great,
Nor the myriad world, His shadow, nor the silent Opener of the Gate."