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==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
'''Title:''' ''Lamentation''<br> | '''Title:''' ''Lamentation''<br> | ||
'''First Line:''' Earth has detained me prisoner long<br> | |||
{{Composer|Oliver Holden}} | {{Composer|Oliver Holden}} | ||
{{Lyricist|Isaac Watts}} | {{Lyricist|Isaac Watts}} | ||
{{Voicing|3|STB}}<br> | {{Voicing|3|STB}}<br> | ||
{{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}} | {{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}} {{meter|86. 86 (C.M.)}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
{{Instruments|A cappella}} | {{Instruments|A cappella}} | ||
'''Published:''' 1792 | '''Published:''' 1792 | ||
'''Description:''' First published in ''American Harmony'', 1792, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass. Words by [[Isaac Watts]], 1706, ''Lyric Poems'', entitled ''The Song of Angels Above'', in 22 stanzas. | '''Description:''' First published in ''American Harmony'', 1792, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass. Words by [[Isaac Watts]], 1706, ''Lyric Poems'', Book 1, entitled ''The Song of Angels Above'', in 22 stanzas. | ||
'''External websites:''' | '''External websites:''' | ||
==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
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{{Text|English| | |||
1. Earth has detained me prisoner long, | |||
And I'm grown weary now: | |||
My heart, my hand, my ear, my tongue, | |||
There's nothing here for you. | |||
2. Tired in my thoughts, I stretch me down, | |||
And upward glance mine eyes; | |||
Upward, my Father, to Thy throne, | |||
And to my native skies. | |||
3. There the dear Man, my Savior, sits, | |||
The God, how bright He shines! | |||
And scatters infinite delights | |||
On all the happy minds. | |||
4. Seraphs, with elevated strains, | |||
Circle the throne around, | |||
And move and charm the starry plains | |||
With an immortal sound. | |||
5. Jesus, the Lord, their harps employs; | |||
Jesus, my love, they sing: | |||
Jesus, the name of both our joys, | |||
Sounds sweet from every string. | |||
6. Hark, how, beyond the narrow bounds | |||
Of time and space they run, | |||
And speak, in most majestic sounds, | |||
The godhead of the Son. | |||
7. How on the Father's breast He lay, | |||
The darling of his soul, | |||
Infinite years before the day | |||
Or heavens began to roll.}} | |||
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{{Text|Simple| | |||
8. And now they sink the lofty tone, | |||
And gentler notes they play, | |||
And bring th' eternal godhead down | |||
To dwell in humble clay. | |||
9. O sacred beauties of the Man! | |||
(The God resides within) | |||
His flesh all pure, without a stain; | |||
His soul without a sin. | |||
10. Then, how he looked, and how he smiled? | |||
What wondrous things he said! | |||
Sweet cherubs, stay, dwell here a while, | |||
And tell what Jesus did! | |||
11.At his command the blind awake, | |||
And feel the gladsome rays: | |||
He bids the dumb attempt to speak, | |||
They try their tongues in praise. | |||
12. He shed a thousand blessings round | |||
Wherever he turned his eye: | |||
He spoke, and, at the sovereign sounds | |||
The hellish legions fly. | |||
13. Thus, while, with unambitious strife, | |||
Th' ethereal minstrels rove | |||
Through all the labors of his life, | |||
And wonders of his love. | |||
14. In the full choir a broken string | |||
Groans with a strange surprise; | |||
The rest in silence mourn their King | |||
That bleeds, and loves, and dies.}} | |||
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{{Text|Simple| | |||
15. Seraph and saint, with dropping wings, | |||
Cease their harmonious breath: | |||
No blooming trees nor babbling springs | |||
While Jesus sleeps in death, | |||
16. Then all at once to living strains | |||
They summon every chord; | |||
Break up the tomb, and burst his chains, | |||
And show their rising Lord. | |||
17. Around the flaming army throngs, | |||
To guard him to the skies, | |||
With loud hosannas on their tongues, | |||
And triumph in their eyes. | |||
18. In awful state the conquering God | |||
Ascends his shining throne, | |||
While tuneful angels sound abroad | |||
The victories he has won. | |||
19. Now let me rise and join their song, | |||
And be an angel too: | |||
My heart, my hand, my ear, my tongue, | |||
Here's joyful work for you! | |||
20. I would begin the music here, | |||
And so my soul should rise. | |||
Oh for some heavenly notes, to bear | |||
My spirit to the skies! | |||
21. There, ye that love my Savior, sit; | |||
There I would fain have place | |||
Among your thrones, or at your feet, | |||
So I might see his face. | |||
22. I am confined to earth no more, | |||
But mount in haste above, | |||
To bless the God that I adore, | |||
And sing the Man I love.}} | |||
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''The Song of Angels Above'' by Isaac Watts | |||
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-20). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 54 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Three-part version. Note shapes added (4-shape). Nine stanzas selected from Watts' poem added below.
General Information
Title: Lamentation
First Line: Earth has detained me prisoner long
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1792
Description: First published in American Harmony, 1792, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass. Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, Lyric Poems, Book 1, entitled The Song of Angels Above, in 22 stanzas.
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text 1. Earth has detained me prisoner long, |
8. And now they sink the lofty tone, |
15. Seraph and saint, with dropping wings, |
The Song of Angels Above by Isaac Watts