The Robe of Noah (Webster Irving Hartshorn)

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• (Posted 2023-10-25)  CPDL #76612:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-25).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 346 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Robe of Noah
Composer: Webster Irving Hartshorn
Lyricist: Lydia Howard Sigourney
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1860 Mason Bros.
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Original text and translations

English text

    There was a lonely ark
    That sailed o’er waters dark;
And wide around
    Not one tall tree was seen,
    No flowers, nor leaf of green,
All, all were drowned.

    Then a soft wing was spread,
    And o’er the billows dread
A meek dove flew;
    But on that shoreless tide,
    No living thing she spied
To cheer her view.

    There was no chirping sound,
    O’er that wide watery sound,
To soothe her woe;
    But cold the surges spread
    Their covering o’er the dead,
Now sunk below.

    So to the ark she fled
    With weary, drooping head,
To seek for rest;
    Christ is that ark, my love,
    Thou art the timid dove,
Fly to his breast.