Lord, let me know mine end (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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CPDL #20722: Capella
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2009-12-30). Score information: A4, 17 pages, 309 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score, for practice only.
- CPDL #10100: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2005-11-14). Score information: Letter, 22 pages, 210 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
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
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.