Make Ready Your Beauty

"I Come With My Songs"

Poet/Lyricist: 

Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986)

Commissioned by Pride Houston, a vibrant LGBTQ chorus, "Make Ready Your Beauty" is an exuberant expression of loving the world with rigor, confidence and with awe. A powerful opener!

Level: 

Moderate
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I Come With My Songs (1924)

Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986)

World, I come with my songs;
I come, singing.
If indeed you have wrongs
I come to undo them.

Make ready your terrible beauty.
I come with my songs.
It shall be my dear duty
To praise and adore you.

Do you hear my heart from afar
Beating high like a drum?
You must hear it even where you are
Announcing my coming.

I come in awe to your feet
A lover, drunk
With the fame of your face; O, sweet,
I bring you my dreams.

Make ready your beauty. I come
To praise you with words
That must shake your streets like a drum.
Make ready your beauty.

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