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| ==Music files==
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| *<b>CPDL #1951:</b> [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/wood-orb.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/wood-orb.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/wood-orb.zip ENCORE].<br>
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| :<b>Editor:</b> [[User:John Henry Fowler|John Henry Fowler]] <i>(added 2001-01-09)</i>. <b>Score information: </b>316 kbytes <b>Copyright:</b> [[ChoralWiki:CPDL|CPDL]]<br>
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| :<b>Edition notes:</b>
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| ==General Information==
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| <b>Title:</b> <i>O Thou, the Central Orb</i><br>
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| <b>Composer:</b> [[Charles Wood]]<br>
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| <b>Number of voices:</b> 4vv <b>Voicing:</b> SATB<br>
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| '''Genre:''' [[:Category:Sacred music|Sacred]], [[:Category:Anthems|Anthems]] <br>
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| <b>Language:</b> [[English]]<br>
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| <b>Instruments: </b>organ<br>
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| ==Original text and translations==
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| O Thou, the central orb of righteous love,<br/>
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| Pure beam of the most High, eternal Light<br/>
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| Of this our wintry world, Thy radiance bright<br/>
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| Awakes new joy in faith, hope soars above.
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| Come, quickly come, and let thy glory shine,<br/>
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| Gilding our darksome heaven with rays Divine.
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| Thy saints with holy lustre round Thee move,<br/>
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| As stars about thy throne, set in the height<br/>
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| Of God's ordaining counsel, as Thy sight<br/>
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| Gives measured grace to each, Thy power to prove.
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| Let Thy bright beams disperse the gloom of sin,<br/>
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| Our nature all shall feel eternal day<br/>
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| In fellowship with thee, transforming day<br/>
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| To souls erewhile unclean, now pure within. Amen.
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| :H. R. Bramley
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| There is an urban myth in several choirs that the penultimate line should read 'transforming ''clay'''. Ingenious though this correction is (and its ingenuity is no doubt why it has had, and still has, such wide appeal), it is not correct, as a look at Wood's original manuscript of the piece confirms; moreover, it is a misconstrual of the text. Although musically the phrase does appear to start a new clause, it needs to be read in the context of the whole verse; this demonstrates that the sense is 'a day of transformation for souls that were formally unclean'. In other words, 'transforming' is an adjective, not a participle.
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| I hope that clears that one up!
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