Lord, let me know mine end (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2005-11-14). Score information: Letter, 22 pages, 210 kbytes Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Lord, let me know mine end
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Source of text: Psalm 39

Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1918

Description: Number 6 in a set of 6 known as the Songs of Farewell

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Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 39.

English text

Lord, let me know mine end and the number of my days,

That I may be certified how long I have to live.

Thou hast made my days as it were a span long;

And mine age is as nothing in respect of Thee,

And verily, ev'ry man living is altogether vanity,

For man walketh in a vain shadow

And disquieteth himself in vain,

He heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them.

And now, Lord, what is my hope?

Truly my hope is even in Thee.

Deliver me from all mine offences

And make me not a rebuke to the foolish.

I became dumb and opened not my mouth

For it was Thy doing.

Take Thy plague away from me,

I am even consumed by means of Thy heavy hand.

When Thou with rebukes does chasten man for sin

Thou makest his beauty to consume away

Like as it were a moth fretting a garment;

Ev'ry man therefore is but vanity.

Hear my pray'r, O Lord

And with Thy ears consider my calling,

Hold not Thy peace at my tears!

For I am a stranger with Thee and a sojourner

As all my fathers were.

O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength before I go hence

And be no more seen.