Cruelty Has a Human Heart (choir)

Instrumentation: S.A.T.B. - vc. - pno.

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PROGRAMME NOTE

‍Cruelty has Human Heart was written as a response to ‘How falsely doth the world accuse’ Chorale38 from Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

The text is taken from Blake’s poem A Divine Image in Songs of Experience:

Cruelty has a Human Heart

And Jealousy a Human Face

Terror the Human Form Divine

And Secrecy, the Human Dress

The Human Dress, is forged Iron

The Human Form, a fiery Forge.

The Human Face, a Furnace seal’d

The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.

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