The Silent Sea (William Harold Neidlinger)

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• (Posted 2022-11-30)  CPDL #71719:     

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-11-30).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 99 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: composer's original 4-part mixed chorus version.

• (Posted 2022-07-23)  CPDL #70103:     

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-07-23).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 87 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Arranged for SSA Choir and Piano by Eduardo Marzo (1852-1929).

General Information

Title: The Silent Sea
Composer: William Harold Neidlinger
Lyricist: John Greenleaf Whittier
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1908
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

 The composer set verses 1,2,4&5

1 I know not what the future hath
Of marvel or surprise,
Assured alone that life and death
God's mercy underlies.

2 And if my heart and flesh are weak
To bear an untried pain,
The bruised reed He will not break
But strengthen and sustain.

4 And so beside the silent sea
I wait the muffled oar:
No harm from Him can come to me
On ocean or on shore.

5 I know not where His island lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.