SEPTUAGESIMA TO LENT
![\new ChoirStaff <<
\new Staff { \clef treble \time 4/2 \key e \major \set Staff.midiInstrument = "church organ" \omit Staff.TimeSignature \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \override Score.BarNumber #'transparent = ##t
\relative c'
<< { e1 e2 fis | gis a b b | gis1 \breathe \bar"||" gis | cis2 b b ais | \time 2/2 b1 \fermata \bar"||" \break
\time 4/2 b gis2 b | cis b a gis | fis1 \breathe \bar"||" gis | fis2 e e dis | e1 \fermata \bar"|." } \\
{ b1 b2 cis4( dis) | e2 e e dis | e1 b | e2 dis cis cis | dis1
fis e2 fis4( gis) | a2 gis gis4( fis) e2 | dis1 e | cis2 gis4( a) b2 b | b1 } >>
}
\new Staff { \clef bass \key e \major \set Staff.midiInstrument = "church organ" \omit Staff.TimeSignature
\relative c'
<< { gis1 | b2 a | b a fis fis | gis1 e | gis2 fis gis cis | b1
b1 e2 d) | cis dis! e4( b) b2 | b1 b | a2 e fis fis | gis1 } \\
{ e1 gis2 fis | e cis b b | e1 e | cis2 dis e fis | b,1 \fermata
dis e2 b | a b cis4( dis) e2 | b1 e | a,2 cis b b | e1 \fermata } >>
}
>>
\layout { indent = #0 }
\midi { \tempo 2 = 66 }](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/s/3/s3ahn4j8am3g6yzonemqhrv14cvctr3/s3ahn4j8.png)
C. Coffin, 1676—1749. Tr. J. M. Neale.
Te laeta, mundi Conditor.
MAKER of earth, to thee alone
Perpetual rest belongs;
And the bright choirs around thy throne
May pour their endless songs.
2 But we,—ah holy now no more!
Are doomed to toil and pain;
Yet exiles on an alien shore
May sing their country’s strain.
3 Father, whose promise binds thee still
To heal the suppliant throng,
Grant us to mourn the deeds of ill
That banish us so long;
4 And, while we mourn, in faith to rest
Upon thy love and care,
Till thou restore us with the blest
The song of heaven to share.
5. O God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Holy Ghost,
To thee be praise great Three in One,
From thy created host. Amen.
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\new Staff { \clef treble \time 4/2 \key e \major \set Staff.midiInstrument = "church organ" \omit Staff.TimeSignature
\relative c' {
<< { e1 e \bar"||" } \\ { cis b } >> }
}
\new Lyrics \lyricmode {
A -- men.
}
\new Staff { \clef bass \key e \major \set Staff.midiInstrument = "church organ" \omit Staff.TimeSignature
\relative c' {
<< { a1 gis } \\ { a,1 e' } >> }
}
>> >>
\layout { indent = #0 }
\midi { \tempo 2 = 66 }](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/1/7/17i3jn0puyknwi55b2cv1qizknelqhl/17i3jn0p.png)
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