Through the night of doubt and sorrow (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-01-31). Score information: A4, 1 page, 48 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-01-31). Score information: A4, 1 page, 128 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Through the night of doubt and sorrow
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Tune: Rustington
Lyricist: Bernhard Severin Ingemanncreate page
- Translation by Sabine Baring-Gould
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 87. 87. D
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published:
2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 211
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Original text and translations
English text
Through the night of doubt and sorrow
onward goes the pilgrim band,
singing songs of expectation,
marching to the promised land.
Clear before us through the darkness
gleams and burns the guiding light;
brother clasps the hand of brother,
stepping fearless through the night.
One the light of God’s own presence
o’er his ransomed people shed,
chasing far the gloom and terror,
brightening all the path we tread:
one the object of our journey,
one the faith which never tires,
one the earnest looking forward,
one the hope our God inspires:
one the strain that lips of thousands
lift as from the heart of one:
one the conflict, one the peril,
one the march in God begun:
one the gladness of rejoicing
on the far eternal shore,
where the one almighty Father
reigns in love for evermore.
Onward, therefore, pilgrim brothers,
onward with the Cross our aid;
bear its shame, and fight its battle,
till we rest beneath its shade.
Soon shall come the great awaking,
soon the rending of the tomb;
then the scattering of all shadows,
and the end of toil and gloom.