Faire is the heaven

• Faire is the heaven is a double choir anthem written in 1925 that many believe exemplifies William Harris’s best work.
• The anthem uses lines from three stanzas of the poem, An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty, by the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser.¹

“Faire is the heaven” – selection from Edmund Spenser’s An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty

1. Martin Ennis, “Programme Notes” in accompanying booklet, Locus iste performed by St John’s College Choir Cambridge, Signum 567, 2019, compact disc.