Mirrors, The
An a cappella setting for mixed chorus of a poem by English painter and poet Roger Wagner.
Duration: 5' 46"
Difficulty: 4/5 (Difficulty Rating Overview)
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Mixed Chorus (a cappella, divisi, no solos)
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The Mirrors
Roger Wagner
The mirrors of Almighty God
Have blankets made of plastic bags
Beneath the bridge at Charing Cross
Near where the river's current drags
Its burden of unwholesome mud
And rubber tyres and broken oars
They lie like Lazarus at night
When rich men's guard dogs licked his sores.
The mirrors of Almighty God
Have Oxford Street as their love bower
They leave their names in public phones
And sell themselves for half an hour,
Or find their work in adult shows
That line the streets off Soho Square
Performing like King Herod's niece
For those that buy their right to stare.
The mirrors of Almighty God
More deeply than all skill could mend,
In love's first garden looked on death
And looking cracked from end to end.
Yet if a face could crack a glass
The reflex of that would be true:
That in the beauty of a face
A broken mirror is made new.
And once among the Gadarenes
The naked man they came to find
Sat looking into God's own face
Clothed, healed, and in his right mind.
And one who came from Simon's house
Found that her face was wet with tears
But shining just as Moses did
When love had washed away his fears.
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The Mirrors was recorded in January 2022 for the album J.A.C. Redford: Dappled Things by London Voices directed by Ben Parry.
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