Derby ("Come let us anew") (Anonymous)
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CPDL #10533: 
- Editor: Tim Henderson (added 2005-12-31). Score information: A4, 1 pages, 41 kbytes Copyright: [[ChoralWiki:|ChoralWiki:]]
- Edition notes: from Peck's Centenary Tunebook 1839
General Information
Title: Derby ("Come let us anew")
Composer: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns
Language: English
Instruments:
Published: c 1772
Description: According to Hymn Tune Index, first appeared in 1772 (The Spiritual Psalmists Companion) but probably more widely available from John Wesley's Sacred Harmony 1781. The Peculiar Metre 55. 5 11 fits Charles Wesley's Hymn for the New Year.
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Original text and translations
English text
- Come let us anew
- Our journey pursue,
- Roll round with the year
- And never stand still
- Till the Master appear.
- His adorable will
- Let us gladly fulfil;
- And our talents improve
- By the patience of hope,
- And the labour of love.
- Our life is a dream;
- Our time, as a stream,
- Glides swiftly away;
- And the fugitive moment
- Refuses to stay.
- The arrow is flown,
- The moment is gone,
- The millennial year
- Rushes on to our view,
- And eternity's here.
- O that each in the day
- Of his coming may say,
- "I have fought my way through,
- "I have finished the work
- "Thou didst give me to do!"