Tender Thoughts (Oliver Holden)

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General Information

Title: Tender Thoughts
First Line: Arise, my tender thoughts, arise
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Philip Doddridge

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: First published in Plain Psalmody, 1800, p. 30, voiced for three parts: Treble-Tenor-Bass. Words by Philip Doddridge, published in 1755, his Hymn 64, in five stanzas.

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Original text and translations

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1. Arise, my tenderest thoughts, arise, (a)
To torrents melt my streaming eyes; (b)
And thou, my heart, with anguish feel
Those evils which thou canst not heal.

2. See human nature sunk in shame;
See scandals poured on Jesus' name;
The Father wounded through the Son,
The world abused, the soul undone.

3. See the short course of vain delight
Closing in everlasting night;
In flames, that no abatement know,
Though briny tears forever flow.

4. My God, I feel the mournful scene;
My bowels yearn o'er dying men;
And fain my pity would reclaim,
And snatch the fire-brands from the flame.

5. But feeble my compassion proves;
And can but weep, where most it loves;
The own all-saving arm employ,
And turn these drops of grief to joy.
_________
(a) Holden has "my tender thoughts." (b) Holden has "torrents drown my weeping eyes."