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Sweet Place
Author: Samuel Crossman Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 7 hymnals Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal First Line: Sweet place; sweet place alone Refrain First Line: O happy place! Lyrics: 1. Sweet place; sweet place alone!
The court of God most high,
The heaven of heavens, the throne
Of spotless majesty!
Refrain
O happy place!
When shall I be, my God, with Thee,
To see Thy face?
2. The stranger homeward bends,
And sigheth for his rest:
Heaven is my home, my friends
Lodge there in Abraham’s breast. [Refrain]
3. Earth’s but a sorry tent,
Pitched but a few frail days,
A short leased tenement;
Heaven’s still my song, my praise. [Refrain]
4. No tears from any eyes
Drop in that holy choir:
But death itself there dies,
And sighs themselves expire. [Refrain]
5. There should temptations cease,
My frailties there should end.
There should I rest in peace
In the arms of my best friend. [Refrain]
6. Jerusalem on high
My song and city is,
My home whene’er I die,
The center of my bliss. [Refrain]
7. Thy walls, sweet city! thine
With pearls are garnished,
Thy gates with praises shine,
Thy streets with gold are spread. [Refrain]
8. No sun by day shines there,
No moon by silent night.
O no! these needless are;
The Lamb’s the city’s light. [Refrain]
9. There dwells my Lord, my king,
Judged here unfit to live;
There angels to Him sing,
And lowly homage give. [Refrain]
10. The patriarchs of old
There from their travels cease:
The prophets there behold
Their longed for Prince of Peace. [Refrain]
11. The Lamb’s apostles there
I might with joy behold:
The harpers I might hear
Harping on harps of gold. [Refrain]
12. The bleeding martyrs, they
Within those courts are found;
All clothed in pure array,
Their scars with glory crowned. [Refrain]
13. Ah me! ah me! that I
In Kedar’s tents here stay;
No place like this on high;
Thither, Lord! guide my way. [Refrain] Used With Tune: DARWALL'S 148TH Text Sources: The Young Man's Meditation, 1664
Sweet Place
DARWALL'S 148TH
Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 478 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Darwall Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Tune Sources: The New Universal Psalmodist, by Aaron Williams, 1770 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13153 17654 32231 Used With Text: Sweet Place
DARWALL'S 148TH
CHRISTCHURCH
Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 105 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. Steggall, 1826-1905 Hymnal Title: The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13512 51655 43235 Used With Text: Sweet place: sweet place alone!
CHRISTCHURCH
Sweet place, sweet place alone
Hymnal: Church Pastorals, hymns and tunes for public and social worship #889 (1864) Hymnal Title: Church Pastorals, hymns and tunes for public and social worship Topics: Life and Death Languages: English
Sweet place, sweet place alone
O happy place!
Hymnal: Hymns of the Church, Ancient and Modern #407 (1872) Hymnal Title: Hymns of the Church, Ancient and Modern First Line: Sweet place, sweet place alone! Languages: English
O happy place!
O happy place
Author: Samuel Crossman Hymnal: The Book of Praise #d326 (1865) Hymnal Title: The Book of Praise First Line: Sweet place, sweet place alone
O happy place
Samuel Crossman
1623 - 1684 Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Author of "Sweet Place" in The Cyber Hymnal Crossman, Samuel , B.D. From A. Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (1720, vol. ii. p. 730) we gather all that is known of this hymnwriter. Wood says concerning him:—
"Samuel Crossman, Bachelor of Divinity of Cambridge, and Prebendary of Bristol, son of Samuel Crossman, of Bradfield Monachorum, in Suffolk. He hath written and published several things, as The Young Man's Monitor, &c, London, 1664, 8vo., and several sermons, among which are two sermons preached in the Cathedral of Bristol, 30th Jan., 1679, and 30th Jan., 1680, being the days of public humiliation for the execrable murder of King Charles I, printed at London, 1681, &c.; also a sermon preached 23rd April, 1680, in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, before the Gentlemen of the Artillery Company newly raised in that City, printed at London, 1680, &c; and, "An Humble Plea for the quiet rest of God's Ark," preached before Sir Joh. Moore, Lord Mayor of London, at St. Mildred's Church in the Poultrey, 5th February, 1681, London, 1682, 4to, &c. He died 4th February, 1683, aged 69 years, and was buried in the South Aisle of the Cathedral Church in Bristol" [of which he had been appointed Dean a few weeks before].
Crossman's contributions to hymnody were given in a small pamphlet entitled:—
The Young Man's Meditation, or some few Sacred Poems upon Select Subjects, and Scriptures. By Samuel Crossman, B.D. London, Printed by J. H., &c, 1664.
This pamphlet, which was reprinted by D. Sedgwick, London, 1863, contains 9 sacred poems. Of these the following are in common use:—
1. My life's a shade, my days. Resurrection. This is in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, together with a chorus to each stanza of 4 Lines. It is sometimes given as "Life is a shade, my days," as in Kennedy, 1863.
2. Sweet place, sweet place alone, Pt. i. Jerusalem on high, Pt. ii. These two parts form one poem on Heaven. The most popular portion is Pt. ii. This is given in numerous collections in Great Britain and America. Part i. is not so extensively used. From the two parts the cento "Earth's but a sorry tent," in the Dutch Reformed Hymns of the Church, N. Y. 1869, is also taken.
3. Farewell, poor world, I must be gone. Death anticipated. This is given in the Comprehensive Rippon, 1844, and in a few of the older American hymnbooks.
4. My song is love unknown. In the Anglican Hymnbook, 1863
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Samuel Crossman
John Darwall
1732 - 1789 Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Composer of "DARWALL'S 148TH" in The Cyber Hymnal John Darwall (b. Haughton, Staffordshire, England, 1731; d. Walsall, Staffordshire, England, 1789) The son of a pastor, he attended Manchester Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, England (1752-1756). He became the curate and later the vicar of St. Matthew's Parish Church in Walsall, where he remained until his death. Darwall was a poet and amateur musician. He composed a soprano tune and bass line for each of the 150 psalm versifications in the Tate and Brady New Version of the Psalms of David (l696). In an organ dedication speech in 1773 Darwall advocated singing the "Psalm tunes in quicker time than common [in order that] six verses might be sung in the same space of time that four generally are."
Bert Polman
John Darwall
Charles Steggall
1826 - 1905 Person Name: C. Steggall, 1826-1905 Hymnal Title: The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Composer of "CHRISTCHURCH" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes
Charles Steggall
