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13080 | The Cyber Hymnal#13081 | 13082 |
Text: | What Sound Of Lofty Praise |
Author: | Isadore Gilbert |
Tune: | A LITTLE KINGDOM |
Composer: | Alanzo Potter Howard |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 What sound of lofty praise is this,
Suffusing all the air?
What agony, what untold bliss,
Are meeting, striving there?
Earth’s last great shadow—endless life
On one same threshold stand;
Immortal peace—earth’s darkest grief,
Both call from distant land.
2 "God owns me, Mother!" thus he spake,
What rest, what radiant joy!
Peace, stormy soul! For his dear sake,
Be still—God owns my boy.
A strange, cold shadow comes and goes
In those clear star-like eyes;
Life flickers now, it faintly glows,
A voice calls, "Spirit, rise!"
3 Lift up your heads, ye golden gates—
Once more that sound of joy!
"God owns me, Mother: Jesus waits
To welcome home your boy."
Thy rest is glorious, brave child!
Thy triumph early won!
Thy soul’s young tempest soon was stilled;
Thou’rt waiting—we will come.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | What sound of lofty praise is this |
Title: | What Sound Of Lofty Praise |
Author: | Isadore Gilbert |
Meter: | CMD |
Language: | English |
Source: | The Signet Ring by Joseph P. Webster (Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1868) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | A LITTLE KINGDOM |
Composer: | Alanzo Potter Howard (1873) |
Meter: | CMD |
Key: | a minor or modal |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | MIDI |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |