God’s Grandeur
by Anthony Plog
4-Part - Sheet Music

Mixed choir and piano or organ (SATB chorus) - Grade 4

SKU: ET.V87

Composed by Anthony Plog. Contemporary. Choir score and piano. Composed 2007. Duration 2 minutes, 30 seconds. Editions BIM #V87. Published by Editions BIM (ET.V87).

ISBN 9790207016249. Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 - 1889

God’s Grandeur

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like to ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

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