Sweetest treasure (Edward Roberts)

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• (Posted 2024-06-17)  CPDL #80975:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-06-17).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 353 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Sweetest treasure
Composer: Edward Roberts
Lyricist: Fanny Crosby
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1867 Oliver Ditson & Co.
    2nd published: 1868 F. J. Huntington & Co.
Description: Ditson publication (1867) includes all four verses; Huntington publication (1868) includes only the first three verses.

Original text and translations

English text

Sweetest treasure of the heart,
Childhood’s early home;
Joy that never will depart,
Childhood’s early home;
Like the bird that wings the air,
Gaily singing, free from care,
We are happy, happy there,
Childhood’s early home.

All of pleasure we can know,
Childhood’s early home;
In this fleeting world below,
Childhood's early home;
Smiles and tears, like sun and showers,
Chase the merry laughing hours;
There our path is strown with flowers,
Childhood’s early home.

Kneeling by a mother’s side,
In our peaceful home;
When the golden shadows glide,
In our peaceful home;
By her gentle arm caressed,
To her bosom fondly pressed;
Only love can ever rest,
In our peaceful home.

Let us still its memory wear,
Childhood’s early home;
Holy thoughts are twining there,
Childhood’s early home;
Thoughts of love and kindred ties,
Thoughts the heart should dearly prize,
Till we soar beyond the skies.
To our heavenly home.