Dona Nobis Pacem 3 (Kenneth Langer)

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• (Posted 2025-05-23)  CPDL #85054:       

Editor: Kenneth Langer (submitted 2025-05-23).   Score information: Letter, 15 pages, 365 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Dona Nobis Pacem third movement for chorus and wind ensemble

• (Posted 2025-05-23)  CPDL #85053:         

Editor: Kenneth Langer (submitted 2025-05-23).   Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 191 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Dona Nobis Pacem 3
Composer: Kenneth Langer
Lyricist: Georgia Douglas Johnson^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Cantata

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

First published: 2025
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Let's build bridges here and there
or sometimes, just a spiral stair
that we may come somewhat a breast
and sense what cannot be exprest,
and by these measures can be found a meeting place,
a common ground nearer the reaches of the heart
where truth revealed stands clear, a part;
with understanding come to know
what laughing lips will never show:
how tears Let's torturing distress
may masquerade as happiness.

Then you will know when my heart's aching
and when I yours is slowly breaking.
Commune, the altars will reveal.
We then shall be impulsed to kneel
and send a prayer upon its way
for those who wear the thorns to day.

Oh, let's build bridges every where
and span the gulf of challenge there.