I know not if, or dark or bright (Joseph Barnby)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-11-27). Score information: A4, 1 page, 52 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from the edition on IMSLP. Note values halved. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: I know not if, or dark or bright
Tune: Canterbury
Composer: Joseph Barnby
Lyricist: Henry Alford
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 84. 84. D
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
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Description: No.129 from Hymn Tunes by Joseph Barnby, Novello (1897)
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Original text and translations
English text
1. I know not if or dark or bright
Shall be my lot;
If that wherein my hopes delight
Be best or not.
2. It may be mine to drag for years
Toil’s heavy chain,
Or day and night my meat be tears
On bed of pain.
3. Dear faces may surround my health
With smiles and glee,
Or I may dwell alone, and mirth
Be strange to me.
4. My bark is wafted to the strand
By breath divine,
And on its helm there rests a hand
Other than mine.
5. One who was known in storms to sail
I have on board;
Above the roaring of the gale
I hear my Lord.
6. Safe to the land! safe to the land!
The end is this,
And then with Him go hand in hand,
Far into bliss.