The Rainbow (John Liptrot Hatton)

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• (Posted 2023-10-26)  CPDL #76688:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 412 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Rainbow
Composer: John Liptrot Hatton
Lyricist: Beatrice Abercrombie
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1881 Ashdown & Parry
Description: Sacred Partsong for Mixed Voices

Original text and translations

English text

Clouds of doubt and sorrow
O’er life’s pathway fall,
But, behold, the rainbow
Shineth in them all;

Token of that promise,
Where on, safe and blest,
Faith, ’mid every trial,
Doth securely rest.

Even when the darkest,
Last dread cloud doth lower,
Brighter still the rainbow
Shinest in that hour;

While, at last, for ever,
Grief’s dark waters cease,
And the free soul, dovelike,
Folds her wing in peace.