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Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2005-11-12).   Score information: Letter, 15 pages, 148 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: At the round earth's imagined corners
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: John Donne - (1572-1631)

Number of voices: 7v   Voicing:SSAATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella

Published: 1918

Description: Number 5 in the collection called "Songs of Farewell "

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Original text and translations

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Holy Sonnet No. VII

At the round earth's imagined corners
blow your trumpets, angels
and arise from death
you numberless infinities of souls
and to your scattered bodies go!


All whom the flood did and fire shall overthrow
All whom war, death, age, agues, tyrannies,
despair, law, chance hath slain;
And you whose eyes shall behold God


And never taste death's woe,
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space,
For, if above all these my sins abound,
'Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace
When we are there.


Here on this lowly ground,
Teach me how to repent, for that's as good
As if Thoud'st sealed my pardon with
Thy blood.


Lyrics by John Donne - (1572-1631)