Save Me from the Grave and Wise

Save me from the Grave and Wise is an Irish folk song. Beethoven based his 7th symphony on the song's dread of dull scholarship and love of life, culminating in the exhilarating coda. This work has young Adeodatus, St. Augustine s bastard son, escaping his father s clutches. Augustine with Jerome and Ambrose are said the be the pillars of the Church. Their largely unreadable scholarship dominated...