Where is this stupendous stranger? (William Boyce)

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• (Posted 2021-04-20)  CPDL #64160:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-04-20).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 38 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard

• (Posted 2021-04-20)  CPDL #64159:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-04-20).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 75 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.

General Information

Title: Where is this stupendous stranger?
Composer: William Boyce
Tune: Halton Holgate
Lyricist: Christopher Smart
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 87. 87

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard

First published:
    2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 527
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Original text and translations

English text

Where is this stupendous stranger?
prophets, shepherds, kings, advise:
lead me to my Master’s manger,
show me where my Saviour lies.

O most mighty, O most holy,
far beyond the seraph’s thought,
art thou then so mean and lowly
as unheeded prophets taught?

O the magnitude of meekness,
worth from worth immortal sprung,
O the strength of infant weakness,
if eternal is so young.

God all-bounteous, all-creative,
whom no ills from good dissuade,
is incarnate, and a native
of the very world he made.