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- CPDL #01753:
- Editor: Christopher R. Baker (submitted 2000-11-27). Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Shaker hymn
General Information
Title: Sweetest Music Softly Stealing
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Shaker hymn colletion (1875)
Description:
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- Sweetest music softly stealing
- O'er our hearts in tuneful chime,
- Shall in joyous notes revealing,
- Swell the song of olden times.
- When the mourning star was beaming,
- Angels sang of peaceand love;
- Many souls awoke from dreaming,
- Hail'd the light from Heaven above.
- 2.
- Wake we now to joy and gladness,
- Christ the Saviour we have found:
- Banish from our hearts all sadness,
- And in deed of love abound.
- Now the fount of good unsealing,
- Let us all our souls upfull;
- And, in kindly Christian feeling,
- Breathe sweet peace andspeak good will.
- Gladsome sound we echo still,
- Peace on earth, to all good will.