The Primal Love (Jennifer Bastable)

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•  Posted on 2024-08-29(Posted 2024-08-29)  CPDL #81749:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2024-08-29).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 229 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Primal Love
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: George MacDonald
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for four voices, of lines from George MacDonald's poem 'November' from 'A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul.'

Original text and translations

English text

Lord, with thy breath blow on my being’s fires,
Until, even to the soul with self-love wan,
I yield the primal love, that no return desires.