Build thee more stately mansions (Mark Andrews)

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• (Posted 2023-04-02)  CPDL #73285:     

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2023-04-02).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 94 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Build thee more stately mansions
Composer: Mark Andrews
Lyricist: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

First published: 1920
Description: 

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English text

The composer set the last stanza of the poem "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!