The night is far spent (Myles Birket Foster)

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• (Posted 2020-10-14)  CPDL #60880:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-10-14).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 198 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: The night is far spent
Composer: Myles Birket Foster
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Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem for Advent

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

First published: 1898 Novello's Octavo Anthems, no.607
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Original text and translations

English text

Romans 13:12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Romans 13:11b  It is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Luke 23:29a  Behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say
Luke 23:30b  to the mountains, “Fall on us”; and to the hills, “Cover us”.
Mark 13:33  Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Mark 13:36  Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.