Telitha (Seaborn M. Denson)

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• (Posted 2024-08-10)  CPDL #81558:         

Editor: Antonio Higgins (submitted 2024-08-10).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 38 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transcribed from Union Harp. Shape-note edition, as originally published.

General Information

Title: Telitha
First Line: Bold soldiers all, on you I call
Composer: Seaborn M. Denson and Amanda Denson
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrATB
Genre: Sacred, Partsong   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1909 in Union Harp, p. 92
    2nd published: 1913 in Sacred Tunes and Hymns, no. 51, p. 73
Description: Written in 1908. First published in Union Harp. Re-arranged in Sacred Tunes and Hymns (1913), where his wife's sister, Amanda, revised it. Words by Anonymous, ca. 1840. This tune is incompatible with most of the verses, due to the repetition of phrases that would cut off full words in other verses.

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• The full hymn text, as published in Zion's Songster.

Original text and translations

English text

Bold soldiers all, on you I call
Although you are but few:
When you've done all, stand fast and keep
The glorious prize in few.

The time draws nigh when you and I
Must cross bold Jordan's flood;
On wings of love we'll soar above
And scale the Mount of God.

My soul is rising while I sing,
Towards the blissful goal:
I feel the love of Christ, my King,
Now running through my soul.