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==Musical settings== Several poems by Vaughan from ''Silex Scintillans'' have been set to music, including: *"The Evening-Watch: Dialogue between Body and Soul" by [[Gustav Holst]] (1924) *The [[Eucharistic]] poem "Welcome, sweet and sacred feast" set by [[Gerald Finzi]] as the anthem ''Welcome, sweet and sacred feast'' in ''Three anthems'', Op. 27 (1953)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Gerald-Finzi-Welcome-Sweet-and-Sacred-Feast/6876. |title=Boosey & Hawkes Composers, Classical Music and Jazz Repertoire}}</ref> *''Peace'', set as the first of [[Hubert Parry]]'s ''[[Songs of Farewell]]'' (1916–1918): "My soul, there is a country".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=16188 |title=My soul, there is a country (Vaughan, set by (Jean Mary Anderson, Gordon Ware Binkerd, George Dyson, Olivier Greif, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Kees Schoonenbeek)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)}}</ref> *Several poems set by [[Daniel Jones (composer)|Daniel Jones]] in his cantata ''The Country Beyond the Stars'' *"Christ's Nativity" and "Peace" set by the American composer Timothy Hoekman in his 1992 sequence of three songs entitled ''The Nativity'' for soprano and orchestra *"They Are All Gone into the World of Light" set by the British composer [[Howard Goodall]] in his 2004 choral work "As Angels in some brighter dreams" and first performed by [https://shrewsburychorale.org The Shrewsbury Chorale] on 5 June 2004<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=As Angels in some brighter dreams... |url=https://shrewsburychorale.org/Past/Howard&Brian.html |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2021-02-15 |website=shrewsburychorale.org}}</ref>
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