Earth fades! Heaven breaks on me

Earth fades! Heaven breaks on me: I shall stand next
Before God's throne: the moment's close at hand
When man the first, last time, has leave to lay
His whole heart bare before its Maker, leave
To clear up the long error of a life
And choose one happiness for evermore.

by Robert Browning (1812-1889) , no title, from Strafford, Act V, Scene 2, published 1837

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by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) , "Earth fades! Heaven breaks on me", op. 24 no. 1, published 1898 [low voice and piano], from In Memoriam: 3 Rhapsodies, no. 1.

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