As Jacob with travel was weary one day (Anonymous)
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- (Posted 2021-04-07) CPDL #63981:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-04-07). Score information: A4, 1 page, 39 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard
- (Posted 2021-04-07) CPDL #63980:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-04-07). Score information: A4, 1 page, 173 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.
General Information
Title: As Jacob with travel was weary one day
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Eccles
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 11 11. 11 11 with refrain
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published:
2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 435
Description: 18th century English carol melody and 18th century anonymous words
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Original text and translations
English text
As Jacob with travel was weary one day,
at night on a stone for a pillow he lay;
he saw in a vision a ladder so high
that its foot was on earth and its top in the sky:
(Refrain:) Alleluia to Jesus who died on the tree,
and has raised up a ladder of mercy for me.
This ladder is long, it is strong and well-made,
has stood hundreds of years and is not yet decayed;
many millions have climbed it and reached Sion’s hill;
and thousands by faith are climbing it still:
(Refrain)
Come let us ascend! all may climb it who will;
for the angels of Jacob are guarding it still:
and remember, each step that by faith we pass o’er,
some prophet or martyr has trod it before:
(Refrain)
And when we arrive at the haven of rest
we shall hear the glad words, ‘Come up hither, ye blest,
here are regions of light, here are mansions of bliss’.
O who would not climb such a ladder as this?
(Refrain)