Hope
Jim Barnes
- Composer:
- Jim Barnes
- Lyricist:
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Publisher:
- SLVivace
- Instrumentation:
- Keyboard/Vocal
- Key:
- Eb
- Vocal Range:
- Medium
- Vocal Pitch Range:
- C4 - Eb5
- MP3 Duration:
- 02:12
Contemporary, innovative chording. Moderate difficulty. The tempo is very free, allowing the singer to use his or her feelings about the words to dictate the tempo, giving the solo a reflective quality. This is a beautiful, wonderful poem to add to the seven we customarily use. Words: Mary Baker Eddy, Poems, p. 43. Music: Jim E. Barnes and Susan I. Lindquist. © 2004 Jim E. Barnes.
Lyrics
Hope
Music: Jim E. Barnes and Susan I. Lindquist
Words: Mary Baker Eddy, Poems, p. 43
‘Tis borne on the zephyr at eventide’s hour;
It falls on the heart like the dew on the flower,–
An infinite essence from tropic to pole,
The promise, the home, and the heaven of Soul.
Hope happifies life, at the altar or bower,
And loosens the fetters of pride and of power;
It comes through our tears, as the soft summer rain,
To beautify, bless, and make joyful again.
The harp of the minstrel, the treasure of time;
A rainbow of rapture, o’erarching, divine;
The God-given mandate that speaks from above,–
No place for earth’s idols, but hope thou, and love.
Music: © 2004 Jim E. Barnes
Words used courtesy of The Mary Baker Eddy Collection