Awake to Duty

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All around us [thee], fair with flowers

Published in 36 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Hymns of Joy

Choral
	O Sanctissima/ O How Joyfully

Handbells
	Christmas Carillon

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All around us, fair with flowers,
Fields of beauty sleeping lie;
All around us clarion voices
Call to duty stern and high.

Thankfully we will rejoice in
All the beauty God has given;
But beware it does not win us
From the work ordained of Heaven.

Following every voice of mercy
With a trusting, loving heart;
Let us in life’s earnest labor
Still be sure to do our part.

Now, to-day, and not to-morrow,
Let us work with all our might,
Lest the wretched faint and perish
In the coming stormy night.

Now, to-day, and not to-morrow,—
Lest, before to-morrow’s sun,
We too, mournfully departing,
Shall have left our work undone.

Source: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #306

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First Line:	All around us [thee], fair with flowers
Title:	Awake to Duty
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

All around us, fair with flowers.[Life's Work.] Given as Anonymous in Longfellow and Johnson's Book of Hymns, 1846, No. 306, and their Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, U.S.A., 1864, No. 576, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Tune

SICILIAN MARINERS

SICILIAN MARINERS is traditionally used for the Roman Catholic Marian hymn "O Sanctissima." According to tradition, Sicilian seamen ended each day on their ships by singing this hymn in unison. The tune probably traveled from Italy to Germany to England, where The European Magazine and London Review…

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