My spirit sang all day
(2025)
for SATB choir
Written for The Founder’s Choir of Royal Holloway
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Performed by The Founder’s Choir of Royal Holloway and Luke Cherry (Conductor) on 25 June 2025 at St. John’s Church, Riga, Latvia
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SATB choir (divisi)
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3’
text
My spirit sang all day
O my joy.
Nothing my tongue could say,
Only My joy!
My heart an echo caught
O my joy
And spake,
Tell me thy thought,
Hide not thy joy.
My eyes gan peer around,
O my joy
What beauty hast thou found?
Shew us thy joy.
My jealous ears grew whist;
O my joy
Music from heaven is't,
Sent for our joy?
She also came and heard;
O my joy,
What, said she, is this word?
What is thy joy?
And I replied,
O see, O my joy,
'Tis thee, I cried, 'tis thee:
Thou art my joy.
Robert Bridges
(1844 - 1930)
