Amiens (Oliver Holden)

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• (Posted 2015-03-21)  CPDL #34835: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-03-21).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 66 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. Originally published with the first two stanzas of Isaac Watts' hymn; the remaining two added below.

General Information

Title: Amiens
First Line: Welcome, sweet day of rest
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.) (Watts); Meter: 66. 86. D (S.M.D.) (Holden)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1803

Description: Published in The Charlestown Collection, 1803, pp. 34-35. Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, his Hymn 14 of Book 2. Holden's composition incorporates the first two two stanzas of Watts' hymn, so although Watts' hymn is S. M. (66.86.), Holden's composition is S. M. D. (66. 86. 66. 86.).

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Original text and translations

English text

Welcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes!

The King Himself comes near,
And feasts His saints today;
Here we may sit, and see Him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.

One day amidst the place
Where my dear God hath been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Of pleasurable sin.

My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this,
And sit, and sing herself away
To everlasting bliss.