Words: Geoffrey Dearmer (1893-1996)

Andante con moto

Commissioned for the Salisbury Diocesan Church Music Committee

Music: Richard Shephard(b.1945)

And didst thou travel light

SOPRANO

And

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didst

thou

tra

vel

light,

dear Lord,

was

ORGAN

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6

thine

so

smooth

a

road,

that

thou

up

on

thy

shoul

ders broad

could

hoist

our

hea

vy

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load?

Too

frail

each o

ther’s

woes

to bear

with

out

thy help

are

R.H.

© 1978, 2003 The Royal School of Church Music. Photocopying this copyright material is ILLEGAL.

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we.

Can

we

each

o

ther’s

bur

dens

share,

if

we

not

bur

den

thee?

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ALTO

SOPRANO

O

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won

der

of

the

world

with

stood!

That

night

of

prayer

and

TENOR

BASS

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24

doom

was

not

the

sun

set

red

with blood,

the

dawn

pale

as

a

28

tomb?

In

a

go ny

and

blood

y sweat,

in

tears

of

love

un

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dried,

O

p

un

des

pair

ing

Lord,

and

yet

with

man

i

den

ti

fied.

p

3

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ALL VOICES As

p

in

dark

drops

the

pitt

ing rain

falls

on

a

dus

ty

p

42

street,

so

tears

shall

fall

and

fall

a gain

to

wash

thy

wound

ed

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feet.

poco cresc.

But

mf

thy

quick hands

to

heal

are strong,

O

love,

thy pa

tients

mf

50 rit.

rit.

we

A.

S.

who

sing

with

joy

the

pil

grims’

song

and

dim.

walk,

dear

Lord,

with

thee.

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B.

T.

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dim.

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