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My Heart Awaketh

Scoring: SATB, Organ
Written: London, UK (2009)
Duration: 5'20
Publisher: Edition Peters
Cost: £3.00

This piece was written for Jim's friends, Sue and Stefan Scot, and first performed at their wedding service in
​Worcester Cathedral.

Adapted from selected verses (5:2, 5; 6:3) of The Song of Songs (c.900 BC)

I sleep, but my heart awaketh; it is the voice of my beloved, saying,
"open to me, my love, my undefiled, for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night".
I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dropped with myrrh,
and my fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh upon the handles of the lock.
I rose up to open to my beloved, for my beloved is mine, and I am my beloved's.
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