Creation (Oliver Holden)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-03-28). Score information: Unknown, 2 pages, 73 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Six more pairs of stanzas added below.
General Information
Title: Creation
First Line: Lord, when my raptured thoughts survey
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Anne Steele
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.) (Steele), Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.) (Holden)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1803
Description: Published in The Charlestown Collection, 1803, p. 55. Words by Anne Steele, 1760, entitled Meditating on Creation and Providence, in 14 stanzas. Holden used the first two stanzas of Steele's poem in his composition. There are several versions of Steele's poem; the one shown below is taken from Evans (1780).
Original text and translations
English text Meditating on Creation and Providence by Anne Steele, 1760
I. Lord, when my raptured thought surveys Creation's beauties o'er, All nature joins to teach thy praise, And bid my soul adore. II. Wherever I turn my gazing eyes, Thy radiant footsteps shine; Ten thousand pleasing wonders rise, And speak their source divine. III. The living tribes of countless forms, In earth, and sea, and air; The meanest flies, the smallest worms, Almighty power declare. IV. All rose to life at thy command, And wait their daily food From thy paternal, bounteous hand, Exhaustless spring of good. V. The meads, arrayed in smiling green, With wholesome herbage crowned; The fields with corn, a richer scene, Spread thy full bounties round. </poem> |
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