Now are the days of humblest prayer (Joseph Barnby)

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• (Posted 2018-12-09)  CPDL #52563:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-12-09).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 63 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from the edition on IMSLP. Note values halved.

General Information

Title: Now are the days of humblest prayer
Tune: Isaiah
Composer: Joseph Barnby
Lyricist: Frederick William Faber

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 888. 66. 86

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 in Hymn Tunes, no. 184, p. 108
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Original text and translations

English text

1 Now are the days of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Refrain: Oh hearken when we cry, Chastise us with Thy fear; Yet, Father! in the multitude Of Thy compassions, hear! 2 Now is the season, wisely long, Of sadder thought and graver song, When ailing souls grow well and strong. [Refrain]

3 The feast of penance! Oh so bright, With true conversion’s heav’nly light, Like sunrise after stormy night! [Refrain] 4 Oh happy time of blessèd tears, Of surer hopes, of chastening fears, Undoing all our evil years. [Refrain] 5 We, who have loved the world, must learn, Upon that world our backs to turn, And with the love God to burn. [Refrain]

6 Vile creatures of such little worth! Than we, there can be none on earth More fallen from their Christian birth. [Refrain] 7 Full long in sin’s dark ways we went, Yet now our steps are heav’nward bent, And grace is plentiful in Lent. [Refrain] 8 All glory to redeeming grace, Disdaining not our evil case, But showing us our Savior’s face! [Refrain]