Now the labourer's task is o'er (John Bacchus Dykes)

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• CPDL #22205:  Capella

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-08-26).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 21 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: From the Church Hymnary, 1927

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Title: Now the labourer's task is o'er
Composer: John Bacchus Dykes
Tune: Requiescat
Lyricist: John Ellerton

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 77. 77 with refrain

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard

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Original text and translations

English text

1. Now the labourer's task is o'er,
 Now the battle-day is past;
 Now upon the farther shore Lands the voyager at last.
R. Father, in Thy gracious keeping
 Leave we now Thy servant sleeping.

2. There the tears of earth are dried;
 There its hidden things are clear;
 There the work of life is tried
 By a juster Judge than here.
R.

3. There the penitents that turn
 To the Cross their dying eyes
 All the love of Jesus learn
 At His feet in Paradise.
R.

4. 'Earth to earth, and dust to dust,'
 Calmly now the words we say;
 Leaving him to sleep in trust,
 Till the resurrection day.
R.