Now quit your care (Traditional)
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- (Posted 2022-01-16) CPDL #67584:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-01-16). Score information: A4, 1 page, 40 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words underlaid.
- (Posted 2022-01-16) CPDL #67583:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-01-16). Score information: A4, 1 page, 187 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Now quit your care
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Tune: Quittez, pasteurs
Lyricist: Percy Dearmer
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: French carol
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Original text and translations
English text
Now quit your care and anxious fear and worry;
for schemes are vain and fretting brings no gain.
Lent calls to prayer, to trust and dedication;
God brings new beauty nigh;
reply, reply, reply with love to love most high.
To bow the head in sackcloth and in ashes,
or rend the soul, such grief is not Lent’s goal;
but to be led to where God’s glory flashes,
his beauty to come near.
Make clear, make clear, make clear where truth and light appear.
For is not this the fast that I have chosen?
(The prophet spoke) To shatter every yoke,
of wickedness the grievous bands to loosen,
oppression put to flight,
to fight, to fight, to fight till every wrong’s set right.
For righteousness and peace will show their faces
to those who feed the hungry in their need,
and wrongs redress, who build the old waste places,
and in the darkness shine.
Divine, divine, divine it is when all combine!
Then shall your light break forth as doth the morning;
your health shall spring, the friends you make shall bring
God’s glory bright, your way through life adorning;
and love shall be the prize.
Arise, arise, arise! and make a paradise!