A True Hymn (Alan Struck)

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  • (Posted 2012-01-14)  CPDL #24914:        (Finale 2011)
Editor: Alan Struck (submitted 2011-11-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 78 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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General Information

Title: A True Hymn

Composer: Alan Struck
Lyricist: George Herbert

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredAnthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

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[My] Joy, my Life, my Crown !
My heart was meaning all the day,
Somewhat it fain would say,
and still it runneth muttering up and down
with only this, my Joy, my Life, my Crown !

Yet slight not those few words;
If truly said, they may take part
Among the best in art:
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
Is, when the soul unto the lines accord.

He who craves all the mind,
And all the soul, and strength, and time,
If the words only rhyme,
Justly complains that somewhat is behind
To make His verse, or write a hymn in kind.

Whereas if the heart be moved,
Although the verse be somewhat scant,
God doth supply the want;
As when the heart says, sighing to be approved,
“O, could I love!” and stops, God writeth, “Loved.”