Be Still, My Soul (#7)

Text by A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad Song Collection

"Be Still, My Soul" is a song by Beverly Benjamin Cole. It is the seventh in a set of eleven poems from A. E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad". If interested in sheet music, please email jackmor@umich.edu

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Be still, my soul, be still;
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
Ay, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;
All thoughts to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:
Horror and scorn and hate and fear and indignation-
Why did I awake? when shall I sleep again?

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