THE GREAT MINIMUM
THE GREAT MINIMUM

Katherine Luna,
Soprano

© 1983 Laurence Galian. All rights
reserved.
The Great Minimum

Music by Laurence Galian
Words by G.K. Chesterton

To have seen you and your
unforgotten face,
Brave as a blast of trumpets
for the fray,
Pure as white lilies in a watery
space,
It were something, though you
went from me.

To have known the things that
from the weak are furled,
Perilous ancient passions,
strange and high;
It is something to be wiser than
the world,
It is something to be older than
the sky.

Lo, blessed are our ears for
they have heard;
Yea, blessed are our eyes for
they have seen:
Let the thunder break on man
and beast and bird.