by Guest » Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:09 am
"To god eternal
The heavens utter glory
From them his name
Afar is heard
By earth and by sea is repeated the story
Let all mankind receive his word.
Who holds the numberless stars in their places?
Who bids the sun his light diffuse?
He comes with brightness and smiles in our faces
And hero-like his way pursues,
And hero-like his way pursues."
I sang that in secondary school in Melbourne in the early 1960s. It's by Beethoven, Creation's Hymn. I love the tune and even for an atheist like myself, the words are quite decent, something of a physics hymn.
Sadly, another, much inferior, set of English words seems to have become the dominant version.
"To god eternal
The heavens utter glory
From them his name
Afar is heard
By earth and by sea is repeated the story
Let all mankind receive his word.
Who holds the numberless stars in their places?
Who bids the sun his light diffuse?
He comes with brightness and smiles in our faces
And hero-like his way pursues,
And hero-like his way pursues."
I sang that in secondary school in Melbourne in the early 1960s. It's by Beethoven, Creation's Hymn. I love the tune and even for an atheist like myself, the words are quite decent, something of a physics hymn.
Sadly, another, much inferior, set of English words seems to have become the dominant version.