Repton (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2020-11-14)  CPDL #61371:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2020-11-14).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 32 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The unison hymn with underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard

• (Posted 2020-11-14)  CPDL #61370:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2020-11-14).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 105 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.

• (Posted 2020-04-25)  CPDL #58178: 

Editor: Henk Vogel (submitted 2020-04-25).   Score information: A4, 2 pages   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Another descant for 'Dear Lord and Father of mankind' (or in Dutch: 'O Heer die onze Vader zijt')

• (Posted 2020-04-25)  CPDL #58177: 

Editor: Henk Vogel (submitted 2020-04-25).   Score information: A4, 2 pages   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Descant for 'Dear Lord and Father of mankind' (or in Dutch: 'O Heer die onze Vader zijt')

• (Posted 2008-09-26)  CPDL #18105: 

Editor: Mark Hamilton Dewey (submitted 2008-09-26).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 54 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Arranged by Mark Hamilton Dewey, set to the lyrics of Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (as seen on HymnWiki.org).

• (Posted 2007-11-11)  CPDL #15382:         

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2007-11-11).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 31 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: SATB version in English from the Cyber Hymnal™. harmonisation only.

General Information

Title: Repton
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: John Greenleaf Whittier

Number of voices: 4 & 6vv   Voicing: SATB, and SSATBB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 86. 886

Language: English
Instruments: Piano or organ

First published: 1888
    2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 115
Description: Words by John Greenleaf Whittier

External websites:

• Parry's tune "Repton" (Dear Lord and Father of Mankind) is played on Euphonium and organ in this UTube clip.
• HymnWiki article with the SSATBB version in the key of E♭ (The E version on this article is probably easier to play on the piano for people with smaller hands)
• HymnWiki article with the SSATBB version set to the lyrics of The Hour of Peaceful Rest

Original text and translations

English text

1.
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways;
Reclothe us in our rightful mind,
In purer lives Thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.

2.
In simple trust like theirs who heard,
Beside the Syrian sea,
The gracious calling of the Lord,
Let us, like them, without a word,
Rise up and follow Thee.

3.
O Sabbath rest by Galilee,
O calm of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with Thee
The silence of eternity,
Interpreted by love!

4.
With that deep hush subduing all
Our words and works that drown
The tender whisper of Thy call,
As noiseless let Thy blessing fall
As fell Thy manna down.

5.
Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.

6.
Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm.