Tender Thoughts (Oliver Holden)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-16). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 55 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Oval note edition. Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2015. The other four stanzas from Doddridge's hymn added below. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-16). Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 68 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2015. The other four stanzas from Doddridge's hymn added below.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-16). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 47 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Oval note edition, as written in 1800. The other four stanzas from Doddridge's hymn added below. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-16). Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 62 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape), otherwise as written in 1800. The other four stanzas from Doddridge's hymn added below.
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: Sacred 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
English text
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.
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(a) Holden has "my tender thoughts." (b) Holden has "torrents drown my weeping eyes."