Holy Thursday
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English
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduc'd to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty!
And their sun does never shine,
And their fields are bleak & bare,
And their ways are fill'd with thorns:
It is eternal winter there.
For where-e'er the sun does shine,
And were-e'er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.
Input by Ahmed E. Ismail
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 William Bolcom (1938-)
, "Holy Thursday", 1956-81 [soloists, madrigal group, chorus, orchestra], from Songs of Experience, Volume One, no. 13.
by David Haines (1956-)
, "Holy Thursday", 1972-9, rev. 1984, first performed 1979 [high voice and piano], from Songs of Experience, no. 7.
Date added to the website: 2005-01-17.
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