The Music Festival, June 1954
By S. Dilworth Young
Attention, Evan Stephens,
John McClellan, Squire Coop,
Cecil Gates,
Anthony Lund!
Did you vision, as you
Played your part, numbering
Musicians
By twos or threes,
Such magnificent
Sound?
Such throbbing
Harmonies?
Did others of your band
(All too few),
Hearing in their souls
Celestial music,
Hope?
This,
Then, begins to be
Fruition, Fulfilment:
Pure youth sing praise
To Israel’s God;
Not hundreds,
But thousands send
Symphonies of sound
Lifting from the Tabernacle,
As our children
And our grandchildren
Sing our gratitude.
(1955)