Happy Retribution - Ingalls, Jeremiah

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"These editions have different words and have a ''Counter'' part added. Words by Bernard of Cluny, 1145, translated by John Mason Neale, 1858, with seventeen stanzas, meter 76. 76."

⌛ Period → Classical ◈ Genre → Sacred

♯ Key A minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range A2 – E5

♩ Tempo allegro moderato (130)

◷ Duration ~31 sec

¶ Language → English

Measures 17

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 1

CPDL # 46803

Editor Barry Johnston

Posted 2017-10-15

License Public Domain

♫Pitch Ranges

Tr.

E4 – E5

G4 – D5

E3 – A4

A2 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

Brief life is here our portion; Brief sorrow, short-lived care: The life that knows no ending. The tearless life, is there. O happy retribution! Short toil, eternal rest; For mortals and for sinner A mansion with the blest! That we should look, poor wanderers, To have our home on high! That worms should seek for dwellings Beyond the starry sky! To all one happy guerdon Of one celestial grace; For all, for all, who mourn their fall, Is one eternal place: And martyrdom hath roses Upon that heavenly ground: And white and virgin lilies For virgin-souls abound.