Anns (William Croft)

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Editor: Tim Henderson (added 2007-08-10).   Score information: A4, 1 pages, 227K kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Anns (St. Anne's) by Dr. Croft. Version from Rippon's Tunebook set to a hymn "On a year of threatening Rain"

General Information

Title: Anns
Composer: William Croft

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns
Language: English
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Original text and translations

English text

1.

How hast thou, Lord, from year to year,

Our land with plenty crowned!

And generous fruit and golden grain

Have spread their riches round.

2.

But we thy mercies have abused,

To more abounding crimes;

What heights, what daring heights in sin,

Mark and disgrace our times!

3.

Equal, though awful is the doom

That fierce descending rain

Should into inundations swell,

And crush the rising grain.

4.

How just that, in the autumn's reign,

When we had hoped to reap,

Our fields of sorrow and despair

Should lie a hideous heap!

5.

But, Lord, have mercy on our land,

Those floods of vengeance stay;

Dispel these glooms, and let the sun

Shine in unclouded day.

6.

To thee alone we look for help;

None else of dew and rain

Can give the world the smallest drop,

Or smallest drop restrain.