Gird on thy sword, O man, thy strength endue
Gird on thy sword, O man, thy strength endue. Robert Bridges* (1844-1930).
This poem is Section 7 of Bridges’s ‘A Hymn of Nature: an Ode written for Music’, a series of poems that express the poet’s belief in the relationship between Nature, the created world, and God, the life-principle in all things. The series was set to music by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry* and performed at the Gloucester Festival in 1898. It was subsequently included in Bridges’s Later Poems (1912). It concluded the Ode with four stanzas:
Gird on thy sword, O man, thy strength endue, In fair desire thine earthborn joy renew,Live thou thy life beneath the making sun Till Beauty, Truth, and Love in thee are...
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