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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Nelson Eddy Sings - The Lost Chord

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Dennis Edward said...

Two weeks after the Titanic sank off Newfoundland Caruso sang "The Lost Chord" at a benefit concert on the evening of 29th April 1912 at the MET to raise money for the victims' families. Caruso had just recorded the song in the afternoon....

The song is composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877 at the bedside of his brother Fred during Fred's last illness. The manuscript is dated 13 January 1877; Fred Sullivan died five days later. The lyric was written as a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter called "A Lost Chord," published in 1858 in The English Woman's Journal.

TEXT

Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys.

I know not what I was playing,
Or what I was dreaming then;
But I struck one chord of music,
Like the sound of a great Amen.

It flooded the crimson twilight,
Like the close of an angel's psalm,
And it lay on my fevered spirit
With a touch of infinite calm.

It quieted pain and sorrow,
Like love overcoming strife;
It seemed the harmonious echo
From our discordant life.

It linked all perplexèd meanings
Into one perfect peace,
And trembled away into silence
As if it were loth to cease.

I have sought, but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the organ,
And entered into mine.

It may be that death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again,
It may be that only in Heav'n
I shall hear that grand Amen.

Will you hear the great Amen when you awake from death? Stop pushing Jesus aside. Draw nigh to Him and He will draw nigh to you. Call upon His name. He will not disappoint you. It's just that simple. He's just that wonderful!

October 12, 2014 at 8:08 AM

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