Repton Lyrics

Title: Repton
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Arranger: Mark Hamilton Dewey
Lyricist: John G. Whittier^{create page}, in the Atlantic Monthly, April 1872

Number of voices: 4vv and 6  Voicing: SATB and SSATBB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns     Meter: 86. 886

Language: English
Instruments: Piano or organ
Published: 1888

Description:

External websites:

• Parry's tune "Repton" (Dear Lord and Father of Mankind) is played on Euphonium and organ in this UTube clip.
• HymnWiki article with the SSATBB version in the key of E♭
  • The E version on this article is probably easier to play on the piano for people with smaller hands
• HymnWiki article with the SSATBB version set to the lyrics of The Hour of Peaceful Rest

Original text and translations

English text

1.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,

Forgive our foolish ways;

Reclothe us in our rightful mind,

In purer lives Thy service find,

In deeper reverence, praise.

2.

In simple trust like theirs who heard,

Beside the Syrian sea,

The gracious calling of the Lord,

Let us, like them, without a word,

Rise up and follow Thee.

3.

O Sabbath rest by Galilee,

O calm of hills above,

Where Jesus knelt to share with Thee

The silence of eternity,

Interpreted by love!

4.

With that deep hush subduing all

Our words and works that drown

The tender whisper of Thy call,

As noiseless let Thy blessing fall

As fell Thy manna down.

5.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness,

Till all our strivings cease;

Take from our souls the strain and stress,

And let our ordered lives confess

The beauty of Thy peace.

6.

Breathe through the heats of our desire

Thy coolness and Thy balm;

Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;

Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,

O still, small voice of calm.