The World Stands Out on Either Side

Top Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Instances

The world stands out on either side

Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Tune: RICKER
Published in 2 hymnals

Representative Text

1 The world stands out on either side
no wider than the heart is wide;
above the world is stretched the sky
no higher than the soul is high.

2 The heart can push the sea and land
so far away on either hand;
the soul can split the sky in two
and let the face of God shine through.

Source: Singing the Living Tradition #3

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay

(no biographical information available about Edna St. Vincent Millay.) Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	The world stands out on either side
Title:	The World Stands Out on Either Side
Author:	Edna St. Vincent Millay
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain