Now Quit Your Care
SATB choral/organ score
PEL5010-Choir and Organ
A HYMN SETTING OF PERCY DEARMER'S LENTEN TEXT FOR SATB CHOIR AND ORGAN.
While Paul Halley had always been a fan of Dearmer's hymn text "Now Quit Your Care", he never felt it worked well with the tune "Quittez Pasteurs" (O leave your sheep). While he was Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church in Torrington, CT, he wrote a new tune for this text and named it "Tillotson" after the Reverend Ellen Tillotson, Rector at the time. V.1 is for unison choir and organ; V.2 for sopranos and altos; V.3 for tenors and basses; V.4 for unaccompanied choir; and V.5 for ATB unison with sopranos on the descant.
Texts
1 Now quit your care and anxious fear and worry;
For schemes are vain and fretting brings no gain.
Lent calls to prayer, to trust and dedication;
God brings new beauty nigh;
Reply, reply, reply with love to love most high.
2 To bow the head in sackcloth and in ashes,
Or rend the soul, such grief is not Lent's goal;
But to be led to where God's glory flashes,
His beauty to come near.
Make clear, make clear, make clear where truth and light appear.
3 For is not this the fast that I have chosen?
(The prophet spoke) To shatter every yoke,
Of wickedness the grievous bands to loosen,
Oppression put to flight,
To fight, to fight, to fight till every wrong's put right.
4 For righteousness and peace shall show their faces
To those who feed the hungry in their need,
And wrongs redress, who build the old waste places,
And in the darkness shine.
Divine, divine, divine it is when all combine!
5 Then shall your light break forth as doth the morning;
Your health shall spring, the friends you make shall bring
God's glory bright, your way through life adorning;
And love shall be the prize.
Arise, arise, arise! and make a paradise!
