Poem by Richard Watson Gilder

The New Day. Part 4. 4. Song (Not from the whole wide world I chose thee)

Not from the whole wide world I chose thee—
Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!
The wide, wide world could not inclose thee,
For thou art the whole wide world to me. 

1. The Celestial Passion. Prelude
2. The New Day. Part 3. 8. “Thy Lover, Love, Would Have Some Nobler Way”
3. The New Day. Part 3. 23. Song (My love grew with the growing night)
4. The Celestial Passion. Part 2. 2. Easter
5. The New Day. Part 3. 31. “When the Last Doubt Is Doubted”

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