

Calm Soul of All Things
Hymn composed by
Thomas TallisContextual information
This hymn appears as #88 in Singing the Living Tradition.
This hymn appears as #88 in Singing the Living Tradition.
Tune Name
TALLIS' CANON
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Text Meter
L.M.
10.9.10.9
Song Composer
Thomas TallisHymn Arranger
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Lyrics
Calm soul of all things, make it mine
to feel, amid the city’s jar,
that there abides a peace of thine
I did not make, and cannot mar.
The will to neither strive nor cry,
the power to feel with others, give.
Calm, calm me more; nor let me die
before I have begun to live.