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==Music files== | ==Music files== | ||
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==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
{{Title|''Fading Nature''}} | |||
{{FirstLine|So fades the lovely, blooming flower}} | |||
{{Composer|Stephen Jenks}} | {{Composer|Stephen Jenks}} | ||
{{Lyricist|Anne Steele}} | {{Lyricist|Anne Steele}} | ||
{{Voicing|4|SATB}} | {{Voicing|4|SATB}} | ||
{{Genre|Sacred|}} | {{Genre|Sacred|}} {{Meter|88. 88 (L.M.)}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
{{Instruments|A cappella}} | {{Instruments|A cappella}} | ||
''' | {{Pub|1|1807|in ''[[The Hartford Collection (Elijah Griswold)|The Hartford Collection]]'', p. 44.}} | ||
{{Descr|Words by [[Anne Steele]], 1760, in seven stanzas. Extensively revised by Jenks in 1818, with anonymous words.}} | |||
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==Original text and translations== | |||
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{{Text|English| | |||
''To Amira, on the death of her child'' | |||
:by Anne Steele, 1760 | |||
So fades the lovely, blooming flower, | |||
Frail, smiling solace of an hour! | |||
So soon our transient comforts fly, | |||
And pleasure only blooms to die! | |||
To certain trouble we are born, | |||
Hope to rejoice, but sure to mourn. | |||
Ah wretched effort! sad relief, | |||
To plead necessity of grief! | |||
Is there no kind, no lenient art | |||
To heal the anguish of the heart? | |||
To ease the heavy load of care. | |||
Which nature must, but cannot bear? | |||
' | Can reason's dictates be obeyed? | ||
Too weak, alas, her strongest aid! | |||
O let religion then be nigh, | |||
Her comforts were not made to die.}} | |||
{{middle|3}} | |||
{{Text|Simple| | |||
Her powerful aid supports the soul, | |||
{{ | And nature owns her kind control; | ||
While she unfolds the sacred page, | |||
Our fiercest griefs resign their rage. | |||
Then gentle patience smiles on pain, | |||
And dying hope revives again; | |||
Hope wipes the tear from sorrow's eye, | |||
And faith points upward to the sky. | |||
The promise guides her ardent flight, | |||
And joys unknown to sense invite, | |||
Those blissful regions to explore, | |||
Where pleasure blooms to fade no more.}} | |||
{{middle|3}} | |||
{{Text|Simple| | |||
''New England doctor's gravestone'' | |||
:Anonymous author | |||
Thousands of journeys, night and day, | |||
I have rode weary on the way, | |||
To heal the sick, but now am gone | |||
A journey, never to return.}} | |||
{{bottom}} | |||
[[Category:Four-shape note editions]] | |||
[[Category:Sheet music]] | [[Category:Sheet music]] | ||
[[Category:Classical music]] | [[Category:Classical music]] |
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-04-09). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 58 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Oval note edition. Version of 1818, with words by Anne Steele. All seven stanzas of Steele's poem included.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-04-09). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 58 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Version of 1818, with words by Anne Steele. All seven stanzas of Steele's poem included.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-04-09). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 54 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Version of 1818, with words by an anonymous author, one stanza.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-04-09). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 70 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Version of 1807, with words by Anne Steele. All seven stanzas of Steele's poem included.
General Information
Title: Fading Nature
First Line: So fades the lovely, blooming flower
Composer: Stephen Jenks
Lyricist: Anne Steele
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1807 in The Hartford Collection, p. 44
Description: Words by Anne Steele, 1760, in seven stanzas. Extensively revised by Jenks in 1818, with anonymous words.
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Original text and translations
English text To Amira, on the death of her child |
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New England doctor's gravestone |