Four Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Four Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. For a cappella SATB Choir. [Set to music by Bryan Beaumont Hays]. 1. God’s Grandeur -- 2. The Windhover -- 3. Easter Communion -- 4. Pied Beauty. Text by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Choral 1. God’s Grandeur: The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil, it gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? ... 2. The Windhover: to Christ Our Lord: I caught this morning morning’s minion, kingdom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon, in his riding of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding high there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing in his ecstasy, then off, off forth on a swing, as a heel sweeps smooth on a bowbend: the hurl and gliding rebuffed the big wind. ... 3. Easter Communion: Pure fasted faces drawn unto this feast: God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips. ... 4. Pied Beauty: Glory be to God for dappled things— for skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; for rosemoles all in stipple upon trout that swim; fresh-fire-coal chest-nut-falls; finches’ wings; landscape plotted and pieced— fold, fallow, and plough; and all trades, their gear and, and tackle and trim. ... Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hays, Bryan Beaumont, 1920-2017. Organ SATB Choir 2015 Alliance Publications, Inc. Sinsinawa, WI 13:40 (7:50, 1:35, 3:03, 1:12) 199 (52, 48, 54, 45) 951104230 Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied.