New from Kjos: “All Beautiful the March of Days” set to original music for SATB & piano

The beauty of God’s creations throughout the seasons of the year are proclaimed in this fresh new SATB setting of Frances W. Wile’s charming hymn text. Mike Carson has taken a lovely text and created an anthem of lyrical beauty, with an easily-learned melody and moderate vocal ranges. Chosen by Bradley Ellingboe for Kjos’s 2014 “Music for the Church Year” series, this anthem will easily fill seasonal needs for choirs in schools and churches. The text was written as a winter hymn, appropriate for New Year concerts and Epiphany services.

 

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All beautiful the march of days, as seasons come and go;

The Hand that shaped the rose hath wrought the crystal of the snow;

Hath sent the hoary frost of Heav’n, the flowing waters sealed,

And laid a silent loveliness on hill and wood and field.

 

O’er white expanses sparkling pure the radiant morns unfold;

The solemn splendors of the night burn brighter than the cold;

Life mounts in every throbbing vein, love deepens round the hearth,

And clearer sounds the angel hymn, “Good will to men on earth.”

 

O Thou from Whose unfathomed law the year in beauty flows,

Thyself the vision passing by in crystal and in rose,

Day unto day doth utter speech, and night to night proclaim,

In ever changing words of light, the wonder of Thy Name.