Severing Angel L.M.
By William Cleary
- Key
- F♯ minor
- Time signature
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3
4 - Composed
- 2024
- Text
- Judith Sargent Murray,
Listen to recordings
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London composium 2024
Thank you Connie for the recording.
Text
Spectres no more my soul affright,
I hail the harbinger of light,
The star of Bethlehem points my way,
To regions of unclouded day.
The severing angel but appears,
To wipe away the falling tears,
To execute the great decree,
Which sets the prison’d spirit free.
The hallow’d earth where Jesus laid,
A bed of slumbering rest is made,
And thence–with their victorious head–
His ransom’d people shall be led.