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A new SATB setting of English poet William Cowper's well-loved hymn text Sometimes a Light Surprises.
Sometimes a Light Surprises
By William Cowper (1731-1800) alt.
Sometimes a light surprises
The Christian soul who sings;
It is the Lord, who rises
With healing in those wings:
When comforts are declining,
God grants the soul again
A season of clear shining,
To cheer it after rain.
In holy contemplation
We sweetly then pursue
The theme of God’s salvation,
And find it ever new.
Set free from present sorrow,
We cheerfully can say,
E'en let the unknown tomorrow
Bring with it what it may.
It can bring with it nothing
But God will bear us through;
Who gives the lilies clothing
Will clothe a people, too;
Beneath the spreading heavens,
No creature but is fed;
The one who feeds the ravens
Will give those children bread.
Though vine nor fig tree neither
Their wonted fruit shall bear,
Though all the field should wither,
Nor flocks nor herds be there;
Yet God the same abiding,
Whose praise shall tune my voice,
In Providence confiding,
I cannot but rejoice.
