Hornsey (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)

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Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2007-11-14).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 20 kbytes       Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: SATB version in English from CyberHymnal - File Sizes: PDF: 20 KB, MIDI: 2 KB, NWC: 1 KB

General Information

Title: Hornsey
Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns     Meter:   87. 83
Language: English
Instruments: piano/organ
Published: Tune: Hornsey, Sam­u­el S. Wes­ley, in the Eur­o­pe­an Psalm­ist, 1872; Words: Sabine Bar­ing-Gould, in Church Times, 1864.

Description:

External websites:

Cyber Hymnal entry for Hornsey:

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/n/onresmor.htm

Original text and translations

English text

1.

On the resurrection morning,

Soul and body meet again,

No more sorrow, no more weeping,

No more pain.

2.

Here awhile they must be parted,

And the flesh its Sabbath keep,

Waiting in a holy stillness,

Wrapped in sleep.

3.

For a while the wearied body

Lies with feet toward the morn;

Till the last and brightest Easter

Day be born.

4.

But the soul in contemplation,

Utters earnest prayer and strong,

Bursting at the resurrection

Into song.

5.

Soul and body reunited

Thenceforth nothing shall divide,

Waking up in Christ’s own likeness

Satisfied.

6.

O the beauty, O the gladness

Of that resurrection day,

Which shall not through endless ages

Pass away!

7.

On that happy Easter morning

All the graves their dead restore,

Father, mother, sister, brother,

Meet once more.

8.

To that brightest of all meetings

Bring us, Jesus Christ, at last,

By thy cross, through death and judgment,

Holding fast.

Lyrics: Sabine Bar­ing-Gould, in Church Times, 1864. </b>