The orphan’s prayer (Alfred Arthur Graley)

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• (Posted 2024-05-02)  CPDL #80481:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-02).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 364 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The orphan’s prayer
Composer: Alfred Arthur Graley
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Taintor Brothers
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Original text and translations

English text

Friends of humanity, list to my moan:
I’m a poor orphan child, weary and lone;
Others may sing of the joys of the home;
Fatherless, motherless, pensive I roam.

Closed are the eyes that once beamed upon me,
Cold is the breast where my home used to be,
Hushed is the voice which my sorrows beguiled,
Hid in the grave are the friends of a child.

While on the world’s troubled bosom I weep,
Dear ones, no sorrow disturbs your sweet sleep;
Fain would I bid to this region adieu,
Share your cold pillow, and slumber with you.

Pity me, children of gladness and glee;
Sunshine and flowers may your heritage be;
But there are joys that shall ever endure,
Throned in the heart of the friend of the poor.

God of the fatherless, motherless child,
Temper the storm beating coldly and wild;
Thou who regardest an orphan’s complaint,
Heal the young heart that is bleeding and faint.