Let saints on earth in concert sing (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2019-05-01). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 11 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Let saints on earth in concert sing
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Charles Wesley
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: Melody in Scottish Psalter, 1615. Harmony from Ravenscroft's Psalmes, 1621. Source: New English Hymnal
External websites: http://www.embassysingers.de
Original text and translations
English text
1 Let saints on earth in concert sing
with those whose work is done;
for all the servants of our King
in heaven and earth are one.
2 One family, we dwell in him,
one church, above, beneath;
though now divided by the stream,
the narrow stream of death.
3 One army of the living God,
to his command we bow:
part of the host has crossed the flood,
and part is crossing now.
4 E'en now to their eternal home
there pass some spirits blest;
while others to the margin come,
waiting their call to rest.
5 Jesu, be thou our constant guide;
then, when the word is given,
bid Jordan's narrow stream divide,
and bring us safe to heaven.