On Thine Own Child
VIDEO
Central Illinois Children’s Chorus and the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra; Stephen Alltop, conductor
DURATION
3’
INSTRUMENTATION
SSAA choir (treble or children), pno
POET
Percy Bysshe Shelley
YEAR COMPOSED
2014
COMMISSIONER
San Francisco Choral Society in collaboration with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir
THIS IS A MOVEMENT FROM:
Terra Nostra
ORDERING SCORES
Theodore Presser Company
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Children’s Chorus Score, containing both On Thine Own Child and There was a child went forth every day
TEXT
Sacred Goddess, Mother Earth,
Thou from whose immortal bosom
Gods and men and beasts have birth,
Leaf and blade, and bud and blossom,
Breathe thine influence most divine
On thine own child.
If with mists of evening dew
Thou dost nourish these young flowers
Till they grow in scent and hue
Fairest children of the Hours,
Breathe thine influence most divine
On thine own child.