Adventante Deo (Symonds, set by K. Leighton) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Lift up your heads, gates of my heart, unfold
  Your portals to salute the King of kings!
  Behold Him come, borne on cherubic wings
  Engrained with crimson eyes and grail of gold!
Before His path the thunder-clouds withhold
  Their stormy pinions, and the desert sings:
  He from His lips divine and forehead flings
  Sunlight of peace unfathomed, bliss untold.
O soul, faint soul, disquieted how long!
  Lift up thine eyes, for lo, thy Lord is near,
  Lord of all loveliness and strength and song,
The Lord who brings heart-sadness better cheer,
  Scattering those midnight dreams that dote on wrong,
  Purging with heaven's pure rays love's atmosphere!

Authorship

John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)

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Versöhnung

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

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)

Date added to the website: 2008-07-16.

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