Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila (Translation by Arthur Symons) 1. If, Lord, Thy love for is strong 2. Shepherd, shepherd, hark that calling! 3. Let min eyes see Thee 4. Today a shepherd and our kin Four Poems of Saint Teresa of Avila, for contralto and string orchestra, was composed in 1947; there are many who consider it Berkeleys finest work. Certainly almost every facet of this musical personality is here seen at its finest: his melodic invention; the sheer prettiness of his writing; its elegance and unaffected distinction; his unerring sense of form in shorter works - and beyond these, a more earnest, sober vein, expressed with a quiet passion and intensity. The first and third of St Teresas lyrics are love-songs to God, the first of them a dialogue which (in Arthur Symonss translations) reads like a divine poem by an English 17th century writer, the other softer and simpler and gentler. The second and forth poems are shepherd songs. Full Score (with Piano Reduction) Soft