Make Ready Your Beauty
"I Come With My Songs"
Commissioned by Pride Houston, a vibrant LGBTQ chorus, "Make Ready Your Beauty" is an exuberant expression of loving the world with rigor, confidence and with awe. A powerful opener!
| Item | Voicing | Duration | |||
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| JS-132 | SATB | 5:00 | Audio file
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$2.75 |
Commissioned by
Pride Houston
Mixed Choir
Difficulty
Moderate
I Come With My Songs (1924)
Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986)
World, I come with my songs; I come, singing. If indeed you have wrongs I come to undo them. Make ready your terrible beauty. I come with my songs. It shall be my dear duty To praise and adore you. Do you hear my heart from afar Beating high like a drum? You must hear it even where you are Announcing my coming. I come in awe to your feet A lover, drunk With the fame of your face; O, sweet, I bring you my dreams. Make ready your beauty. I come To praise you with words That must shake your streets like a drum. Make ready your beauty.