The Master-Player

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Publication Information

Published in Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896)

Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin

Musical Settings

Louis Adolphe Coerne, The Master-Player (SATB chorus and piano) (January 1925)

Text

An old, worn harp that had been played
Till all its strings were loose and frayed,
Joy, Hate, and Fear, each one essayed,
To play. But each in turn had found
No sweet responsiveness of sound.

Then Love the Master-Player came
With heaving breast and eyes aflame;
The Harp he took all undismayed,
Smote on its strings, still strange to song,
And brought forth music sweet and strong.


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