Ten thousand times ten thousand (William Henry Maxfield)

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• (Posted 2025-11-09)  CPDL #87347:   

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2025-11-09).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 135 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Ten thousand times ten thousand
Composer: William Henry Maxfield
Lyricist: Henry Alford
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

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English text

1 Ten thousand times ten thousand
in sparkling raiment bright,
the armies of the ransomed saints
throng up the steeps of light.
'Tis finished, all is finished,
their fight with death and sin;
fling open wide the golden gates,
and let the victors in!

2 O then what raptured greetings
on Canaan's happy shore,
what knitting severed friendships up
where partings are no more!
Then eyes with joy shall sparkle,
That brimmed with tears of late;
orphans no longer fatherless,
nor widows desolate.

3 What rush of alleluias
fills all the earth and sky,
what ringing of a thousand harps
bespeaks the triumph nigh!
O day, for which creation
And all its tribes were made;
O joy, for all its former woes,
a thousandfold repaid!