Once When My Heart Was Passion Free

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Once when my heart was passion free

Author: John B. Tabb
Tune: TWENTY-FOURTH
Published in 1 hymnal

Piano/Organ
	Hymn Harmonizations, Set 5

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1 Once when my heart was passion free
to learn of things divine,
the soul of nature suddenly
outpoured itself in mine.

2 I held the secrets of the deep
and of the heavens above;
I knew the harmonies of sleep,
the mysteries of love.

3 And for a moment’s interval
the earth, the sky, the sea —
my soul encompassed each and all,
as they encompass me.

Source: Singing the Living Tradition #335

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Author: John B. Tabb

John Banister Tabb, 1845-1910; priest, poet; b. Va.; Confederate solider and prisoner of war; ordained Roman Catholic priest, 1884; taught English at St. Charles College, Md. Go to person page >

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