Anthem for St Catharine s Day

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1 Anthem or St tharine s Day (rancis warner) SATB organ david goode First perormance given by the Choir o St tharine s College, mbridge in St tharine s to celebrate the tercentenary o the consecration o the Chapel, St tharine s Day, th November 00 conducted by Edward Wickham (Organist: Matthew Cook) Music Copyright 00 David Goode Words Copyright 00 Francis Warner

2 Anthem or St tharine s Day Pass me a match, my son, to spin this torture, Spark the dark circle into urious light, Scatter her ear o worst pain that can scorch her tharine, Bride o the Christ Child, girls hoped sight, Queen o all scholars, sleeping on Mount Moses As she relives the Eeror s decree. Death by dislimbing on the wheel exposes Horror o what s to come beore we re ree. Words are the eathered pen that carves our thinking In blood on granite while we still have breath. Pray in that numbness broken only by terror. Time is God s mercy that heals pain in death. Still she destroys the wheel o human dreading, Blindness and ache o solitary hearts. Victory triuhs over her beheading. Christ in His pity lits the severed parts, But in a new dimension, to His glory. Grace gave her courage when God s thunder came. Now she is honoured in eternal story, And the great mbridge college o her name, As in a thousand thousand o her children, Church and cathedral, headland, mount, and sea. Deathless at axestroke, she makes weak hearts quicken Living to praise Christ to eternity. [ 6 ]

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7 1 # j J # Bride o the Christ Child, # # girls' hoped sight, Christ Child, girls' hoped sight, Christ Child, # Christ Child, # j J # j. # # # J # # # # # w # w j # # # J n Queen o all scho lars, 11 11b J b b sleep ing on Mount 11 # J # n # b n cresc b b b # j # 11 # b [ 61 ]