Dies natalis (1926-39)
Plays: 34244
Cantata for tenor solo and string orchestra, on poems by Thomas Traherne
3.The Rapture (Danza) (complete)
Duration: 03 mins 34 secs
Ian Bostridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
(p) 1997 Philips Classics
Philips 454 438
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Sweet Infancy!
O Hevenly Fire! O Sacred Light!
How Fair and bright!
How Great am I
Whom the whol World doth magnify!
O hevenly Joy!
O Great and Sacred Blessedness
Which I possess!
So great a Joy
Who did into my Arms convey?
From God abov
Being sent the Gift doth me enflame
To prais his Name;
The Stars do mov, The Sun doth shine,
to shew his Lov.
O how Divine
Am I! To all this sacred Wealth,
This Life and Health,
Who rais'd? Who mine
Did make the same! What hand divine!
Thomas Traherne
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