12899 | The Cyber Hymnal#12900 | 12901 |
Text: | To Thee, In Youth's Bright Morning |
Author (attributed to): | Robert G. Staples |
Tune: | CHENIES |
Composer: | Timothy Richard Matthews |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 To Thee, in youth’s bright morning
Father of all, we pray;
While thought and fancy dawning,
Lead on the rising day;
To Thee, in life’s last even,
We’ll tune our feebler breath;
Hear all our sins forgiven,
And softly sleep in death.
2 When from death’s sleep we waken,
No fears shall us surprise;
All earthly things forsaken,
What joys shall meet our eyes!
With rapture then increasing,
For ever we’ll rejoice;
And praises never ceasing,
Shall wake each tuneful voice.
3 Though vine nor fig tree either
Its fruit or leaves should bear;
Though all the fields should wither,
Nor flocks nor herds be there;
Yet God, the same abiding,
His praise shall tune my voice;
For while in Him confiding,
I cannot but rejoice.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | To Thee, in youth’s bright morning |
Title: | To Thee, In Youth's Bright Morning |
Author (attributed to): | Robert G. Staples |
Meter: | 76.76 D |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | The first known publication was in Musica Sacra: or, Springfield and Utica Collections United, edited by Thomas Hastings & Solomon Warriner (Utica, New York: William Williams, 1819), number 200. Chronologically, the attribution to Staples seems suspect, as his major works were published in the 1870s and 1880s. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CHENIES |
Composer: | Timothy Richard Matthews (1855) |
Meter: | 76.76 D |
Key: | G Major or modal |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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