The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 86, July 1982 - April, 1983 Page: 48
616 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Away here in Texas, the bright Sunny South,
The cold storms of winter defy,
The dark, lurid clouds that envelope the North,
Scarce darken our beautiful sky.
Away here in Texas, the sun shines so bright,
The stars in their beauty appear;
The full moon in splendor illumines the night,
And the seasons roll around with the year.
Why do Anglo-Texans, especially in East Texas, cherish and per-
petuate musical forms that go back to Shakespeare's time and earlier?
Is it reaction against the new? A holding on to the old, the tried, the
trusted? Is it that through the generations the folk mind has shaped
into comfort and beauty words and tunes that, no matter how often
they are repeated, continue to lighten the human condition: two
parts-poetry and music--coming together in the soulness of a
spiritual:
There is a balm in Gilead
To make the wounded whole;
There is a balm in Gilead
To heal the sin-sick soul.
In that soulness strong elements of the Texas character can be found.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 86, July 1982 - April, 1983, periodical, 1982/1983; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101209/m1/68/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.