[Music]
Through all the world below
God is seen all around,
Search hills and valleys through,
There he's found.
The growing of the corn,
The lily and the thorn,
The pleasant and forlorn,
All declare, God is there;
In meadows drest in green,
There he's seen.
See springing waters rise,
Fountains flow, rivers run;
The mist that veils the sky
Hides the sun;
Then down the rain doth pour,
The ocean it doth roar,
And beat upon the shore;
And all praise in their ways
The God who ne'er declines
His designs.
The sun with all his rays
Speaks of God as he flies;
The comet in her blaze,
God she cries.
The shining of the stars,
The moon when she appears,
His awful name declares;
See them fly through the sky,
And join the solemn sound
All round.
Not India's hills of gold,
Where the wonders are told,
Nor zephyrs strong and bold
Can unfold
The mountain Calvary,
Where Christ our Lord did die.
Hark, hear the Savior cry,
Mountains quake, heavens shake,
Christ, call'd to heaven's host,
Left their coast.
The tune is ascribed to Nicholson. The oldest American recording known
to me is in the four-shape-note manuscript song collection made by
Catherine Alderice in or near Emmittsburg, Md., 1800-1830, p. 37. Miss
Gilchrist calls attention to the secular 'Captain Kidd' ballad, of
which the above is a parody, as it appeared, twenty-five verses long,
in _Our Familiar Songs and Who Made Them_, published in America, 1889.
She describes it as "a sort of dying speech and testament probably
dating from about 1701 in which year Kidd and nine of his associates
were hanged in Execution Dock.... There were many other eighteenth
century songs, built on this peculiar stanzaic plan, celebrating other
notorious characters, 'Admiral Benbow,' 'Jack (or Sam) Hall.'" Other
American spiritual songs in this collection having the same stanzaic
form are 'Wondrous Love' and 'Remember Sinful Youth'.
No. 143
JERUSALEM, SOH (1835) 60
Heptatonic aeolian, mode 2 A + b (I II 3 IV V 6 VII).
[Music]
Jerusalem, my happy home,
O how I long for thee!
When will my sorrows have an end,
Thy joys when shall I see!
But O, the happy, happy place,
The place where Jesus reigns;
The place where Christians all shall meet,
Never to part again.
Further stanzas of the text are given under 'Long-Sought Home' in this
collection. The song is attributed to Benjamin White. This is Benjamin
Franklin White, brother-in-law of, and co-worker with, William Walker
(compiler of the _Southern Harmony_) and author subsequently of the
_Sacred Harp_. See _White Spirituals_, 84.
No. 144
ROBY, OL 273
Heptatonic dorian, mode 2 A + B with altered 3rd (I II 3 [III] IV V VI
7)
[Music]
Tempest tossed, troubled spirit,
Dost thou groan beneath thy load,
Fearing thou shalt not inherit
In the kingdom of thy God?
View thy Savior on the mountain
In temptation's painful hour;
Tho' of grace himself the fountain,
And the Lord of boundless pow'r.
Do thy blooming prospects languish?
Sayest thou still, "I'm not his child?"
View thy Savior's dreadful anguish,
Famished in the gloomy wild.
Not a step in all thy journey,
Thro' this gloomy vale of tears,
But thy Lord hath trod before thee;
He thy way to glory clears.
The _Olive Leaf_ compiler informs us that this song which was a
favorite with the late Rev. Wesley P. Arnold, of Georgia, was "learned
of some dear Baptist friends in Iridell Co., N. C., in 1839, and
called 'Roby', their name."
No. 145
REMEMBER SINFUL YOUTH or SOLEMN THOUGHT, SOH 29