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What sorrowful sounds do I hear
Meter: 8.8.8. Appears in 10 hymnals Lyrics:
1.
What sorrowful sounds do I hear
Move slowly along in the gale?
How solemn they fall on my ear,
As softly they pass through the vale.
Sweet Corydon's notes are all o'er,
Now lonely he sleeps in the clay,
His cheeks bloom with roses no more,
Since death called his spirit away.
2.
Sweet woodbines will rise round his feet,
And willows their sorrowing wave;
Young hyacinths freshen and bloom,
While hawthorns encircle his grave,
Each morn when the sun gilds the east,
(The green grass bespangled with dew,)
He'll cast his bright beams on the west,
To charm the sad Caroline's view.
3.
O Corydon! hear the sad cries
Of Caroline, plaintive and slow;
O spirit! look down from the skies,
And pity the mourner below;
'Tis Caroline's voice in the grove,
Which Philomel hears on the plain;
Then striving the mourner to soothe,
With sympathy joins in her strain.
4.
Ye shepherds so blithesome and young,
Retire from your sports on the green,
Since Corydon's deaf to my song,
The wolves tear the lambs on the plain;
Each swain round the forest will stray
And sorrowing hang down his head,
His pipe then in symphony play,
Some dirge to sweet Corydon's shade.
5.
And when the still night has unfurled
Her robes o'er the hamlet around,
Gray twilight retires from the world,
And darkness encumbers the ground,
I'll leave my own gloomy abode,
To Corydon's urn will I fly,
There kneeling will bless the just God
Who dwells in bright mansions on high.
Used With Tune: PASTORAL ELEGY
What sorrowful sounds do I hear
What Sort of a Backbone?
Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: What sort of a back-bone have you? Used With Tune: [What sort of a back-bone have you?]
What Sort of a Backbone?
What sound is this salutes my ear?
Author: John A. Granade Appears in 84 hymnals Used With Tune: WHAT SOUND IS THIS SALUTES MY EAR
What sound is this salutes my ear?
What Sound Of Lofty Praise
Author: Isadore Gilbert Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: What sound of lofty praise is this Lyrics: 1 What sound of lofty praise is this,
Suffusing all the air?
What agony, what untold bliss,
Are meeting, striving there?
Earth’s last great shadow—endless life
On one same threshold stand;
Immortal peace—earth’s darkest grief,
Both call from distant land.
2 "God owns me, Mother!" thus he spake,
What rest, what radiant joy!
Peace, stormy soul! For his dear sake,
Be still—God owns my boy.
A strange, cold shadow comes and goes
In those clear star-like eyes;
Life flickers now, it faintly glows,
A voice calls, "Spirit, rise!"
3 Lift up your heads, ye golden gates—
Once more that sound of joy!
"God owns me, Mother: Jesus waits
To welcome home your boy."
Thy rest is glorious, brave child!
Thy triumph early won!
Thy soul’s young tempest soon was stilled;
Thou’rt waiting—we will come. Used With Tune: A LITTLE KINGDOM Text Sources: The Signet Ring by Joseph P. Webster (Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1868)
What Sound Of Lofty Praise
What sounds are these salute the ear
Author: John A. Granade Appears in 1 hymnal
What sounds are these salute the ear
What sounds are these that greet mine ear
Appears in 1 hymnal
What sounds are these that greet mine ear
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