SWEET HOUR OF SERENITY

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Cypress Choral Music · Sweet Hour of Serenity – by Lavinia Parker

featuring Brevitas Ensemble, conducted by Matt Nielsen

Be with me sweet hour of serenity,
that I may not hear the darkness shivering with fright.
Teach me the words of your soothing prayer;
destroy all the pains of my night.

Shield me within a citadel of silence,
let your every minute be a guardian at my side,
that I may not, even with the deepest hearing, hear
the trembling pulses of the night.

Descend into me as a miner
descends into the mine with his light,
and carry out of my exhausted soul-pit
the darkest coals of my fearful night.

“A Prayer” by Chava Rosenfarb;