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Turn Back O Man (Gustav Holst)
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- Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2004-07-05). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 156 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: The score states that this edition should only be distributed in the USA. However, Holst's works are now out of copyright in the UK and possibly other European countries as well. Please refer to this page for more information.
General Information
Title: Turn Back O Man
Composer: Gustav Holst
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthems
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
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Original text and translations
English text
- Turn back O Man, forswear thy foolish ways.
- Old now is Earth, and none may count her days,
- Yet thou, her child, whose head is crowned with flame,
- Still wilt not hear thine inner God proclaim,
- "Turn back, O Man, forswear thy foolish ways."
- Earth might be fair and all men glad and wise.
- Age after age their tragic empires rise,
- Built while they dream, and in that dreaming weep:
- Would man but wake from out his haunted sleep,
- Earth might be fair and all men glad and wise.
- Earth shall be fair, and all her people one:
- Nor till that hour shall God's whole will be done.
- Now, even now, once more from earth to sky,
- Peals forth in joy man's old undaunted cry:
- "Earth shall be fair and all her folk be one!"
