O living will (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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  • (Posted 2008-03-23)  CPDL #16422:     
Editor: Michael Gibson (submitted 2008-03-23).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 219 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: O living will
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredAnthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908
Description: 

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Original text and translations

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O living will that shall endure
When all that seems shall suffer shock,
Rise in the spiritual rock,
Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure,

That we may lift from out of dust
A voice as unto him that hears,
A cry above the conquer'd years
To one that with us works, and trust,

With faith that comes of self-control,
The truths that never can be proved
Until we close with all we loved,
And all we flow from, soul in soul.