St Catherine's court (Richard Strutt)
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- (Posted 2008-11-03) CPDL #18219: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-10-03). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 27 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: File Sizes: MIDI: 3 KB, Sibelius 4: 32 KB
General Information
Title: St. Catherine's Court
Composer: Richard Strutt
Lyricist: William H. Drapercreate page (1855-1933)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 12 11. 12 11
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
Published: Written for the Jubilee Celebration of the Girls’ Friendly Society, 1925, and first published in their Jubilee Hymn Book 1925
Description: Draper wrote this hymn for the reopening of the Abbey Church, Shrewsbury, England, after its restoration.
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- In our day of thanksgiving one psalm let us offer
- For the saints who before us have found their reward;
- When the shadow of death fell upon them, we sorrowed,
- But now we rejoice that they rest in the Lord.
- 2.
- In the morning of life, and at noon, and at even,
- He called them away from our worship below;
- But not till His love, at the font and the altar,
- Had girt them with grace for the way they should go.
- 3.
- These stones that have echoed their praises are holy,
- And dear is the ground where their feet have once trod;
- Yet here they confessed they were strangers and pilgrims,
- And still they were seeking the city of God.
- 4.
- Sing praise, then, for all who here sought and here found Him,
- Whose journey is ended, whose perils are past;
- They believed in the Light; and its glory is round them,
- Where the clouds of earth’s sorrows are lifted at last.