SATB with Piano & Flute (opt.)

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Piano

  

  

 


     

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Sally DeFord

     


a tempo

ten.

           

 
 




Vs. 1 Women, Vs. 2 Men:

(Alto and Bass tacet as needed.)
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12



        



 


14

Ev- 'ry search for truth un- end- ing,

As the word of life was spo- ken,

      






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All the world in sha- dow lay,

All the world was un- a- ware,


     

 


   
 







   

Long the age be- reft

As
a sim- ple boy


       


   

   


 



  

of
of

Hea- ven's voice,

ten- der years




 

     



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Above the Brightness of the Sun - 1






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Soprano/Alto
Not
(both verses): Be-

Tenor/Bass
(Both verses):

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hell
glo-



Jo- seph pled for un- derHea- ven hath the si- lence

   




    


  

though the pow'rs

of
hold
the skies
with




Speak- ing all his heart's

Hear his voice, oh sons

deof

  



     
       

 

sire,
earth!


   





   
 
Above the Brightness of the Sun - 
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Of- fer - ing a- loud his hum- ble prayer,

God speaks once a- gain to mor- tal man.



 

  

       

        

 


Then with- in a si- lent grove,

There with- in that hal- lowed grove,

     

stand- ing,
bro- ken,

pow'r.
truth.

 


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Long the age de- nied His

heard the long- a- wai-ted





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Women (2nd time only):

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a- rose
ry riv'n,

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bid
hold





the gates
the might

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who thus
rious day


   


 






     



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wrath
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rether


  


  
 


  
   




 

 


 







 
 





 



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peared to man:
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bove the bright- ness of the


   
      




sun,







              
 

      

a tempo





 







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ing,

Hea- ven's per- fect light,

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stored to man his Fa- ther's king- dom,






 
 




     








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bove the bright- ness of

  




 



  













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up-











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the sun.

    
      




dom,

Fa- ther's king-

his

Lord

    


stored

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the earth,

 
 


   
  










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tion cease to

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fill



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the earth


    



a tempo

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diant

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mor

    
   

ning,)

 


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hea-ven's per-fect light,

ning,
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mor-

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ven's




    


light,)

    

  


 
        
      




 



 
     










    
 



 
   









    
   

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shall e- ver guide his Fa- ther's

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truth


        

 



 





 






The light of truthshines forth

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