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Text: | O Israel, To Thy Tents Repair |
Author: | Thomas Kelly |
Tune: | GROSTETTE |
Composer: | Henry Wellington Greatorex |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 O Israel, to thy tents repair!
Why thus secure on hostile ground?
Thy King commands thee to beware;
For many foes thy camp surround.
2 The trumpet gives a martial strain:
O Israel, gird thee for the fight!
Arise, the combat to maintain,
And put thine enemies to flight.
3 Thou shouldst not sleep, as others do;
Awake! be vigilant, be brave!
The coward, and the sluggard too,
Must wear the fetters of the slave.
4 A nobler lot is cast for thee:
A kingdom waits thee in the skies;
With such a hope, shall Israel flee,
Or yield through weariness the prize?
5 No! let a careless world repose,
And slumber on through life’s short day,
While Israel to the conflict goes,
And bears the glorious prize away.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O Israel, to thy tents repair! |
Title: | O Israel, To Thy Tents Repair |
Author: | Thomas Kelly |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Hymns on Various Passages of Scripture, 2nd ed. 1806 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GROSTETTE |
Composer: | Henry Wellington Greatorex (1851) |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | f♯ minor |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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