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    The Dream of Gerontius, Set to Music (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
    The Dream of Gerontius, Set to Music (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
    The Dream of Gerontius, Set to Music (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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    The Dream of Gerontius, Set to Music (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By John Henry Cardinal Newman and Edward Elgar

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    Along with sermons, essays, and religious books, Newman was a noted author of hymns and poetry. A poetic imagining of the state of a pious soul just after death—as it journeys towards judgment—The Dream of Gerontius is one of Newman’s most famous poems. It was later set to music as an oratorio by Sir Edward Elgar.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateSep 6, 2011
    ISBN9781411457447
    The Dream of Gerontius, Set to Music (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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      The Dream of Gerontius, Set to Music (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) - John Henry Cardinal Newman

      THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS, SET TO MUSIC

      JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND EDWARD ELGAR

      This 2011 edition published by Barnes & Noble, Inc.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4114-5744-7

      THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS

      ¹

      I

      GERONTIUS.

      JESU, MARIA—I am near to death,

      And Thou art calling me; I know it now.

      Not by the token of this faltering breath,

      This chill at heart, this dampness on my brow,—

      (Jesu, have mercy! Mary, pray for me!)

      'Tis this new feeling, never felt before,

      (Be with me, Lord, in my extremity!)

      That I am going, that I am no more.

      'Tis this strange innermost abandonment,

      (Lover of souls! great God! I look to Thee,)

      This emptying out of each constituent

      And natural force, by which I come to be.

      Pray for me, O my friends ; a visitant

      Is knocking his dire summons at my door,

      The like of whom, to scare me and to daunt,

      Has never, never come to me before ;

      So pray for me, my friends, who have not strength to pray.

      ASSISTANTS.

      Kyrie eleïson, Christe eleïson, Kyrie eleison.

      Holy Mary, pray for him.

      All holy Angels, pray for him.

      Choirs of the righteous, pray for him.

      All Apostles, all Evangelists, pray for him.

      All holy Disciples of the Lord, pray for him.

      All holy Innocents, pray for him.

      All holy Martyrs, all holy Confessors,

      All holy Hermits, all holy Virgins,

      All ye Saints of God, pray for him.

      GERONTIUS.

      Rouse thee, my fainting soul, and play the man;

      And through such waning span

      Of life and thought as still has to be trod,

      Prepare to meet thy God.

      And while the storm of that bewilderment

      Is for a season spent,

      And, ere afresh the ruin on me fall,

      Use well the interval.

      ASSISTANTS.

      Be merciful, be gracious; spare him, Lord.

      Be merciful, be gracious; Lord, deliver him.

      From the sins that are past;

      From Thy frown and Thine ire;

      From the perils of dying;

      From any complying

      With sin, or denying

      His God, or relying

      On

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