Be Still, My Soul (#8)

Text by A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad Song Collection

"Be Still, My Soul" is a song by Beverly Benjamin Cole. It is the eighth 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; the arms you bear are brittle,
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
Think rather,-call to thought, if now you grieve a little,
The days when we had rest, O soul, for they were long.

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