Bright Reversion (Oliver Holden)

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• (Posted 2015-07-08)  CPDL #36001:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-08).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 79 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. Counter added, so now is 4-part Treble-Counter-Tenor-Bass; re-barred and note values extended to eliminate need for fermata; 4/4 time started one measure earlier. Three more pairs of stanzas from Steele's hymn included (stanzas 3 and 4, 5 and 1, 7 and 8).

• (Posted 2015-07-08)  CPDL #36000:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-08).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 2 pages, 82 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Counter added, so now is 4-part Treble-Counter-Tenor-Bass; re-barred and note values extended to eliminate need for fermata; 4/4 time started one measure earlier. Three more pairs of stanzas from Steele's hymn included (stanzas 3 and 4, 5 and 1, 7 and 8).

• (Posted 2015-07-08)  CPDL #35999:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-08).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 137 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition, as written in 1800. Three more pairs of stanzas from Steele's hymn added below (stanzas 3 and 4, 5 and 1, 7 and 8).

• (Posted 2015-07-08)  CPDL #35997:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-08).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 140 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape), otherwise as written in 1800. Three more pairs of stanzas from Steele's hymn added below (stanzas 3 and 4, 5 and 1, 7 and 8).

General Information

Title: Bright Reversion
First Line: When conscious grief laments sincere
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Anne Steele

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1800 in Plain Psalmody, p. 37
Description: Words by Anne Steele, 1760, hymn entitled Happy poverty; or, the poor in spirit blessed, eight stanzas. Holden used stanzas two and six in his composition.

Original text and translations

English text Ye humble souls, complain no more, Let faith survey your future store; How happy, how divinely blest, The sacred words of truth attest. When conscious grief laments sincere, And pours the penitential tear; Hope points to your dejected eyes, The bright reversion in the skies. In vain the sons of wealth and pride Despise your lot, your hopes deride: In vain they boast their little stores, Trifles are theirs, a kingdom yours. A kingdom of immense delight, Where health, and peace, and joy unite, Where undeclining pleasures rise, And every wish hath full supplies.

A kingdom which can ne'er decay, While time sweeps earthly thrones a way; The state which power and truth sustain, Unmoved forever must remain. There shall your eyes with rapture view The glorious friend that died for you; That died to ransom, died to raise To crowns of joy, and songs of praise. Jesus, to thee I breathe my prayer, Reveal, confirm my interest there: Whatever my humble lot below, This, this my soul desires to know. O let me hear that voice divine Pronounce the glorious blessing mine! Enrolled among thy happy poor, My largest wishes ask no more.

Happy poverty; or, the poor in spirit blessed by Anne Steele, based on Matthew 5:3