Tune: Tallis' Canon
('All praise to thee, my God, this night')
Psalm 56 v.9-13
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When I call unto you, O LORD
My enemies shall at your word
Turn back, this I know, for God be
For me, and shall my troubles see
In God I will praise His word, He
The living God will ever be
In the LORD I will His word praise
Songs of melody to Him raise
In God I have put my trust, man
I shall not fear that what he can
Do unto me, the LORD shall keep
Me safe, I confide, as His sheep
I will give praises unto you
LORD, for you my state here did view
Saved my soul from death, will not you
Come to my help again anew?
So shall I walk before you true
LORD God, and still shall follow you
In the light of the living for
You the Light of the world e'ermore
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Author:
orchidee (
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- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.8.8.8. metre.
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This is about faith while going through fears. It's easy to 'have faith' when what we're having faith for has come to pass, or when we have no fears!
I suppose that's not real faith, as the thing has then happened, and we see it.
Another verse says 'Who hopes for what they see?' No one, as they have no need to hope for it - it is there right under their nose!
Very true. We are doing a series at our Church at the moment, entitled Faith through Fear so this is good timing indeed! 😊
Thanks Clara. Meanwhile - all anyone gotta fear is my singing! lol. is that in the series?
Very well penned, orchie! It is all about faith isn't it?
Thanks Fred, yes.
OK, now I get it. You're writing syllabic verse, counting syllables rather than stresses. (I've been studying syllabic verse lately with a master of it, but I can't write it myself.) The tune TALLIS' CANON (a.k.a. THE EIGHTH TUNE) is in Long Meter, also written 8.8.8.8. and has a very strong 4/4 rhythm. To sing your verse, the singer must disregard the stress pattern of individual words and of sentences.
Here's a conventionally metrical text:
https://hymnary.org/media/fetch/137287
Thanks Robert. Some of my poems may jar in places, when sung. I don't much on the music side of things.
You usually don't have problems like that if you adhere to the Long Meter, Common Meter, or Short Meter of the tune.
Some of our shape-note texts are so confusing that it's customary to warn people about them before leading the song.
Yes, I follow those Meters at times. Some other times there are Meters such a 7.6.7.6. or 7.7.7.7. or others.
I think that numerical notation is used when the annotator doesn't think the meter conforms to any of the standard meters. Then you have to look at the verse to find out what its meter is.
I see. I wondered for ages what CM, SM, and LM meant in hymn books, until I found out! Then some doubles too, with DCM, DSM, and DLM. I'm no musician. I just use the numbering for easy reference.
Those designations really belong more to the verses.
It's only a slight exaggeration to say that almost any poem by Emily Dickinson - almost all in Short Meter - can be sung to the tune THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS.
Faith despite fear is described so well here Orchi.
Thanks Fay.
Nice one O - have you got your stresses right?
Thanks M. Yep - but Miss Berles may be stressed out, in our indecipherable communications!
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