Prayers of Steel
Language:
English
Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
Let me pry loose old walls.
Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
Drive me into the girders that hold a
skyscraper together.
Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into
the central girders.
Let me be the great nail holding a
skyscraper through blue nights into
white stars.
Input by John Versmoren
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Paul Christiansen
, "Prayers of Steel", published 1950. [satb a cappella]
by Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901-1953)
, "Prayers of Steel", published 1973 [contralto, oboe, percussion, piano, with or without orchestral ostinato], from Three Songs, no. 2.
by Rupert Hughes (1872-1956)
, "The Prayer of Steel", published 1922 [medium or low voice and piano], from Free Verse Songs
by James Spencer Houston (1895-1967)
, "Prayers of Steel", published 1937. [voice and piano]
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