My mind to me a kingdom is (Frederic Grant Gleason)

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• (Posted 2023-10-20)  CPDL #76502:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-20).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 230 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: My Mind to me a Kingdom is
Composer: Frederic Grant Gleason
Lyricist: Edward Dyer
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1903 Oliver Ditson Co.
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English text

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
That earth affords or grows by kind:
Though much I want that most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

Content I live, this is my stay;
I seek no more than may suffice;
I press to bear no haughty sway;
Look, what I lack my mind supplies.
Lo, thus I triumph like a king,
Content with that my mind doth bring.