Engedi (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
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- Engedi (hymn tune)
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Title: Engedi
Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns Meter: (86.886)
Language: English
Instruments: piano/organ
Published: Words: Unknown author, probably 18th Century (En tempus acceptabile); translated from Latin to English by Robert M. Moorsom in Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1889; Music: Engedi, Samuel S. Wesley European Psalmist, 1872.
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
Lo! now the time accepted peals Its tidings of release; A time that with salvation heals, And to repentant tears reveals The mercy seat of peace.
- 2.
Then let us wisely now restrain Our food, our drink, our sleep; From idle word and jest refrain And steadfastly begin again A stricter watch to keep.
- 3.
Now Heav’n-taught love will haste to rise And seek the cheerless bed, Where cold and wan the sufferer lies, And Christ Himself to heedful eyes Is hungering for bread.
- 4.
’Tis now that zealous charity Her goods more largely spends, Lays up her treasure in the sky, And freely yields, ere death draw nigh, To God the wealth He lends.
- 5.
Then consecrate us, Lord, anew, And fire our hearts with love; That all we think, and all we do, Within, without, be pure and true, Rekindled from above.
- 6.
Now fuller praise and glory be To Thee, the First and Last, And make us, blessèd Trinity, More faithful soldiers, worthier Thee, Through this our chastening fast.
Lyrics: Unknown author, probably 18th Century (En tempus acceptabile); translated from Latin to English by Robert M. Moorsom in Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1889.