Eternal source of every joy (Thomas Jarman)

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CPDL #24122:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 6 
Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2011-08-08).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 34 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: The source gives the parts in the order Tenor - Alto - Treble - Bass (labelled as such in the first piece in the book). The treble and bass parts are bracketed together, with small notes between them to fill in the harmony of a keyboard part doubling the voices. This accompaniment has been omitted from the present edition. Only the first verse of the text is underlaid in the source: three subsequent verses have been added editorially.

General Information

Title: Eternal source of every joy
Composer: Thomas Jarman
Tune: New Year's Day
Lyricist: Philip Doddridge

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1840

Description: A setting from page 12 of Thomas Jarman's collection The Wesleyan Melodist [c1840], where the tune is named 'New Year's Day'.

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Original text and translations

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Eternal source of every joy,
Well may thy praise our lips employ;
While in thy temple we appear,
Whose goodness crowns the circling year.

The flow'ry spring at thy command
Embalms the air, and paints the land:
The summer rays with vigour shine
To raise the corn and cheer the vine.

Thy hand, in autumn, richly pours
Through all our coasts redundant stores;
And winters, soften'd by thy care
No more a face of horror wear.

Seasons, and months, and weeks, and days
Demand successive songs of praise:
Still be the cheerful homage paid
With opening light, and evening shade.