Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969)
Iceland Holy Thursday
2001 for mixed choir SATB
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Holy Thursday
(Eg Heyrði allt án þess að hlusta)
Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of joy? And so many children poor? It is a land of poverty!
And their sun does never shine. And their fields are bleak & bare. And their ways are fill’d with thorns. It is eternal winter there.
For where-e’er the sun does shine, And where-e’er the rain does fall: Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.
William Blake
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