Awake, thou Spirit of the watchmen (Anonymous)

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•  Posted on 2024-09-22(Posted 2024-09-22)  CPDL #82089:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-09-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 57 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn with harmony and underlaid words in the version published in The Hymnal 1982.

•  Posted on 2024-09-22(Posted 2024-09-22)  CPDL #82088:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-09-22).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 178 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.

General Information

Title: Awake, thou Spirit of the watchmen
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Dir, dir, Jehovah
Lyricist: Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky^{create page}

Translation by Arthur William Farlander and Charles Winfred Douglas

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 9 10. 9 10. 10 10

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard

First published:
Description: Melody from Musikalisches handbuch, 1690. Harmony from The Hymnal 1982, no copyright asserted.

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• https://embassysingers.de/scores/hymns.html

Original text and translations

English text

Awake, thou Spirit of the watchmen
who never held their peace by day or night,
contending from the walls of Zion
against the foe, confiding in thy might.
Throughout the world their cry is ringing still,
and bringing peoples to thy holy will.

O Lord, now let thy fire enkindle
our hearts, that everywhere its flame may go,
and spread the glory of redemption
till all the world thy saving grace shall know.
O harvest Lord, look down on us and view
how white the fields; the laborers, how few!

Send forth, O Lord, thy strong Evangel
by many messengers, all hearts to win;
make haste to help us in our weakness;
break down the realm of Satan, death, and sin:
the circle of the earth shall then proclaim
thy kingdom, and the glory of thy Name.