Communion (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)

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Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2007-11-13).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 21 kbytes       Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: SATB version in English from CyberHymnal - File Sizes: PDF: 21 KB, MIDI: 2 KB, NWC: 1 KB

General Information

Title: Communion
Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns Meter:   64. 64. 664
Language: English
Instruments: piano/organ
Published: Lyrics: Verses 1-5, Sar­ah F. Adams, in Hymns and Anthems, by William Johnson Fox, 1841; verse 6, Ed­ward H. Bick­er­steth, Jr.; Communion, Sam­u­el S. Wes­ley, in the Eur­o­pe­an Psal­mist, 1872.

Description:

External websites:

Cyber Hymnal entry for Communion:

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/n/m/nmgtthee.htm

Original text and translations

English text

1.

Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me,

Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

Nearer, my God, to Thee,

Nearer to Thee!

2.

Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,

Darkness be over me, my rest a stone.

Yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God to Thee.

Refrain

3.

There let the way appear, steps unto Heav’n;

All that Thou sendest me, in mercy given;

Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

4.

Then, with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,

Out of my stony griefs Bethel I’ll raise;

So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

5.

Or, if on joyful wing cleaving the sky,

Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I’ll fly,

Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

6.

There in my Father’s home, safe and at rest,

There in my Savior’s love, perfectly blest;

Age after age to be, nearer my God to Thee.

Refrain

Lyrics: William Blake 1757-1827