Michael Dodds
Music History
School of Music
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Winston-Salem, NC
[email protected]

Choral Symphony on Psalm 145 (I Will Exalt You, My God The King) 
   • Michael Dodds, Choral Symphony on Psa...  

Blessed Unrest Documentary
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O Sapientia: A Sonnet
Words by Malcolm Guite,
music by Michael Dodds
Charli Mills, soprano, with Owen Dodds, piano
Guy Kelpin, audio engineer
   • O Sapientia: A Sonnet  
O Sapientia: A Sonnet by Malcom Guite
I cannot think unless I have been thought,
Nor can I speak unless I have been spoken. I cannot teach except as I am taught,
Or break the bread except as I am broken.
O Mind behind the mind through which I seek,
O Light within the light by which I see, O Word beneath the words with which I speak,
O founding, unfound Wisdom, finding me,
O sounding Song whose depth is sounding me,
O Memory of time, reminding me,
My Ground of Being, always grounding me,
My Maker’s Bounding Line, defining me,
Come, hidden Wisdom, come with all you bring,
Come to me now, disguised as everything.

In this sonnet, Malcolm Guite responds to the first of the seven (or eight) great "O" antiphons leading up to Christmas Eve:

O Sapientia O Sapientia, quae ex ore Altissimi prodiisti,
attingens a fine usque ad finem,
fortiter suaviterque disponens omnia:
veni ad docendum nos viam prudentiae.

O Wisdom, coming forth from the mouth of the Most High,
reaching from one end to the other mightily,
and sweetly ordering all things:
Come and teach us the way of prudence.

For more about this poem and its poet, see https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/ta...