Build thee more stately mansions (Arthur Farwell)

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(Posted 2024-01-22) CPDL #78843:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-01-22). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 459 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: Build thee more stately mansions
Composer: Arthur Farwell
Lyricist: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1901 C.C. Birchard & Co.
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English text

From “The Chambered Nautilus”

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!