O Youth whose hope is high

O Youth whose hope is high,
Who doth to truth aspire,
Whether thou live or die,
O look not back nor tire.

Thou that art bold to fly
Through tempest, flood and fire,
Nor dost not shrink to try
Thy heart in torments dire, --

If thou canst Death defy,
If thy Faith is entire,
Press onward, for thine eye
Shall see thy heart's desire.

Beauty and love are nigh,
And with their deathless quire
Soon shall thine eager cry
Be number'd and expire.

Authorship

by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930) , no title, from Poems, published 1884

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Harold Edwin Darke (1888-1977) , "O Youth whose hope is high" [TTBB chorus a cappella]
by John Anthony Ritchie (1921-) , "O Youth whose hope is high", 1948 [combined SATB choruss and 2 pianos], from Then Laugheth the Year, no. ?

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