Contemplation (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2023-07-21)  CPDL #74640:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-07-21).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 53 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Notes in four-shape format, as in 1835. Four-part TrATB edition. Transcribed from the three-part version in Compilation of Genuine Church Music, 1835. Alto written by B. C. Johnston, 2023. All four stanzas included, as in 1832.

General Information

Title: Contemplation
First Line: When quiet in my house I sit
Composer: Anonymous
Arranger: Joseph Funk
Lyricist: Charles Wesley
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TrTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 88. 88. 88

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1832 in A Compilation of Genuine Church Music, Edition 1, p. 153
    2nd published: 1835 in A Compilation of Genuine Church Music, Edition 2, p. 152
    3rd published: 1869 in Harmonia Sacra, Edition 13, p. 181
Description: Tune arranged by Joseph Funk from an unknown source, presumed Anonymous until more is known. An Alto part was added in Funk's Harmonia Sacra in 1869. Words by Charles Wesley, in Scripture Hymns, Volume 2 (1762), nos. 289-292, all based on Deuteronomy 6:7.

Original text and translations

English text

1. When quiet in my house I sit,
Thy book be my companion still,
My joy thy sayings to repeat,
Talk o’er the records of thy will,
And search the oracles divine,
’Till every heart-felt word is mine.

2. O might the gracious words divine
Subject of all my converse be,
So would the Lord his follower join,
And walk, and talk himself with me,
So would my heart his presence prove,
And burn with everlasting love.

3. Oft as I lay me down to rest,
O may the reconciling word
Sweetly compose my weary breast,
While on the bosom of my Lord
I sink in blissful dreams away,
And visions of eternal day.

4. Rising to sing my Savior’s praise,
Thee may I publish all day long,
And let thy precious word of grace
Flow from my heart, and fill my tongue,
Fill all my life with purest love,
And join me to thy church above.