Laindon (Samuel Holyoke)

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  • (Posted 2016-10-17)  CPDL #41455:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-10-17).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 84 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Four-part version. Note shapes added (4-shape). Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2016. Treble and Tenor parts exchanged. Another pair of stanzas included, from J. Gleave. 1806. A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs upon Several Occasions. Manchester, [England]: S. Russell.
  • (Posted 2016-10-17)  CPDL #41454:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-10-17).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 59 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Three-part version. Oval note edition. A few small edits, otherwise as written in 1791. Another pair of stanzas included, from J. Gleave. 1806. A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs upon Several Occasions. Manchester, [England]: S. Russell.
  • (Posted 2016-10-17)  CPDL #41453:   
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-10-17).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 57 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Three-part version. Note shapes added (4-shape). Treble and Tenor parts exchanged. Another pair of stanzas included, from J. Gleave. 1806. A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs upon Several Occasions. Manchester, [England]: S. Russell.

General Information

Title: Laindon
First Line: No songs of triumph now be sung
Composer: Samuel Holyoke
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1791 in Harmonia Americana, p. 37, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass
Description: Words by an anonymous author, probably English, before 1791; indexed in Parks' Hymns and Hymn Tunes in the English Metrical Psalters, 1966. Holyoke used two stanzas of this hymn in his composition.

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

1. No songs of triumph now be sung,
Cease all your sprightly airs;
Let sorrow silence every tongue,
And joy dissolve to tears.

2. See where fortunately for us,
Our bleeding Savior nailed!
Ah see, while death he suffers thus,
How much our sins prevailed.

 

3. Ah! think what agonies he felt,
How vast the weight he bore!
And let your souls in weeping melt,
And bleed at every pore.

4. If at this sight we don’t repent,
What other sight can move?
Ungrateful should we not relent,
And pay such love, with love?

 

5. If still contrition is forgot,
And we our sins retain;
As far as it concerns our lot,
He yet but died in vain.

From Gleave, J. 1806. A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs upon Several Occasions: For the Use of St. John’s Church, Manchester. Manchester, (England): S. Russell. “Sold by J. Gleave, Bookseller.”