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Meditation on Psalm 34 v. 6 “This poor man cried…”

Herbert Howells

The first of Howells’s Psalm Preludes, responding to “This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him.”

Era / date
20th century · 1915

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Howells’s Psalm-Prelude takes its motto from Psalm 34:6: the cry of the poor is heard. Source ↗

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