The unknown God
Composed by 
Gardner Read
Gardner Read Four Nocturnes, op. 23 Song Collection
"The unknown God" is the second song from Gardner Read's Four Nocturnes, op. 23 and sets George W. Russell's poetry to music.
Text
The unknown God
by George W. Russell
Far up the dim twilight
Flutter’d moth wings of vapor and flame;
The lights danced over the mountains,
Star after star they came.
The lights grew thicker unheeded,
For silent and still were we;
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty,
Our eyes could never see.
Records
1999
Gardner Read: The Art of Song
William Blake, Frances Frost, James Joyce, Gardner Read, Henry Russell, Rabindranath Tagore, Jean Starr Untermeyer