The Singers - Communion - René Clausen

Matthew Culloton, Artistic Director, leads The Singers - MCA in René Clausen's setting of George MacDonald from "Diary of an Old Soul". Melissa Morey, horn; Steve Swanson, piano; Aaron David Miller, organ.

[@chellestearns5975]

The lyrics are from George MacDonald's "Diary of an Old Soul" (the numbers indicate the date of the entry)
Jan 11.
I thought that I had lost thee; but, behold!
Thou comest to me from the horizon low,
Across the fields outspread of green and gold--
Fair carpet for thy feet to come and go.
Whence I know not, or how to me thou art come!--
Not less my spirit with calm bliss doth glow,
Meeting thee only thus, in nature vague and dumb.
Jan 5.
Thy fishes breathe but where thy waters roll;
Thy birds fly but within thy airy sea;
My soul breathes only in thy infinite soul;
I breathe, I think, I love, I live but thee.
Oh breathe, oh think,--O Love, live into me;
Unworthy is my life till all divine,
Till thou see in me only what is thine.
Jan 6.
Then shall I breathe in sweetest sharing, then
Think in harmonious consort with my kin;
Then shall I love well all my [earthly friends],
Feel one with theirs the life my heart within.
Oh brothers! sisters holy! hearts divine!
Then I shall be all yours, and nothing mine--
To every human heart a mother-twin.
Amen, amen…

[@PatriciaEmersonMitchell]

Ah ... I thought that I had lost thee; but, behold!
Thou comest to me from the horizon low,
Across the fields outspread of green and gold--
Fair carpet for thy feet to come and go.
Whence I know not, or how to me thou art come!--
Not less my spirit with calm bliss doth glow,
Meeting thee only thus, in nature vague and dumb.
... I got that far ... then it goes somewhere else, though ... feeling rather lost! (I'm trying to find the entire text online but have, so far, come up empty.

[@PatriciaEmersonMitchell]

Is the text available somewhere? (I see the MacDonald poem, but obviously this isn't the entire text. I would love to know what they are saying (I can't understand all the words). This is wonderful!

[@liloukc]

It looks like it is excerpted from this very long work: www.online-literature.com/george-macdonald/3538/