My Eyes for Beauty Pine

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Composer
Richard Shephard
Difficulty
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Season
Thanksgiving Lent Season After Pentecost Epiphany (day and season) General
Voicing(s)
SATB
Instruments
Unaccompanied [a cappella] Keyboard [organ/piano]
Category
Anthems
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

SATB Choir, optional accompaniment. A charming strophic motet that will be enjoyed any time of year, but specifically when beauty in God's creation is the theme. Text by Robert Bridges (1844-1930). Written for and recorded during the Mississippi Conference on Church Music and Liturgy.

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Lyrics

My eyes for beauty pine,
My soul for Goddës grace:
No other care nor hope is mine,
to heaven I turn my face.

One splendour thence is shed
From all the stars above:
Tis named when Goddës name is said,
'Tis Love, 'tis heavenly Love.

And every gentle heart,
That burns with true desire,
Is lit from eyes that mirror part
Of that celestial fire.