No way is hard (Harris, set by A. Hovhaness) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


  True poetry -- pure and simple

1 No way is hard where there is a simple heart.
2 Nor is there any wound where the thoughts are upright:
3 Nor is there any storm in the depth of the illuminated thought:
4 Where one is surrounded on every side by beauty, there is nothing that is divided.
5 The likeness of what is below is that which is above; 
  for everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination 
  of those that are without knowledge.
6 [Grace has been revealed for your salvation. Believe and live and be saved.]¹ Hallelujah.

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¹ omitted by Hovhaness.

Input by Jean Nandi

Authorship

James Rendel Harris (1852-1941)

The Forgotten Books of Eden

The Odes of Solomon

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Bible or other Sacred Texts

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

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)

3 Odes of Solomon

Date added to the website: 2009-10-29.

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