Funeral Thoughts (Tim Risher)

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• (Posted 2010-03-14)  CPDL #21221:     

Editor: Tim Risher (submitted 2010-03-14).   Score information: Letter, 17 pages, 321 kB   Copyright: CC BY ND

Edition notes:

Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: PDF has the ends of the staves missing on every page

General Information

Title: Funeral Thoughts
Composer: Tim Risher
Lyricist: Reginald Heber, 1827

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

First published:
Description: solo Tenor (and solo STB in parts as well), SATB and organ. Text is from The Sacred Harp (1860 imprint), #158.

Original text and translations

English text

Thou art gone to the grave - but we will not deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb;
The Saviour has pass'd thro' its portals before thee,
and the lamp of his love is thy guide thro' the gloom.

Thou art gone to the grave - but 'twere wrong to deplore thee,
When God was thy ransom, and guardian, and guide;
He gave thee, and took thee, and soon will restore thee,
Where death hath no sting, since the Saviour hath died.