Geronimo (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2007-11-11).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 24 kbytes       Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: SATB version in English from CyberHymnal - File Sizes: PDF: 24 KB, MIDI: 2 KB, NWC: 1 KB

General Information

Title: Geronimo
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns   Meter: 88. 86
Language: English
Instruments: piano/organ
Published: Music: 1904; Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern

Description:

External websites:

Cyber Hymnal entry for Geronimo:

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/beholdtb.htm

Original text and translations

English text

1.

“Behold, the Bridegroom draweth nigh”

Hear ye the oft repeated cry?

Go forth into the midnight dim;

For blest are they whom He shall find

With ready heart and watchful mind;

Go forth, my soul, to Him.

2.

“Behold, the Bridegroom cometh by,”

The call is echoed from the sky:

Go forth, ye servants, watch and wait:

The slothful cannot join His train;

No careless ones can entrance gain;

Awake, my soul, ’tis late.

3.

The wise will plead with one accord,

“O holy, holy, holy Lord,

On us Thy quick’ning grace bestow,

That none may reach the door too late,

When Thou shalt enter at the gate

And to Thy kingdom go.”

4.

“Behold, the Bridegroom draweth near,”

The warning falls on every ear:

That night of dread shall come to all:

Behold, my soul, thy lamp so dim,

Rise, rise the smoking flax to trim;

Soon shalt thou hear His call.

Lyrics: Au­thor un­known, from the Fer­i­al Mid­night Of­fice of the Greek Church (Iδοὺο Nύμφιος έρχεται); trans­lat­ed from Greek to Eng­lish by Ro­bert M. Moor­som, Ren­der­ings of Church Hymns, 1901.