Reward of Saints

Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning

No. 1004
Metre 11s & 10s.
Tune HAIL TO THE BRIGHTNESS.
Words Thomas Hastings.
Music Lowell Mason.
Key B-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 3/4
3 stanzas

Words

Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning!Joy to the lands that in darkness have lain!Hushed be the accents of sorrow and mourning:Zion, in triumph, begins her mild reign.

Lo, in the desert, rich flowers are springing;Streams ever copious are gliding along;Loud, from the mountain-tops echoes are ringing;Wastes rise in verdure, and mingle in song.

See, the dead risen from land and from ocean;Praise to Jehovah, ascending on high;Fallen are the engines of war and commotion,Shouts of salvation are rending the sky.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «REWARD OF SAINTS.» (top of p. 342); hymn number «1004» (large), tune name «HAIL TO THE BRIGHTNESS. 11s & 10s.» centred over the music, «LOWELL MASON.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «Hail»: «1. Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning! Joy to the lands that in darkness have lain!» / «Hushed be the accents of sorrow and mourning: Zi - on, in triumph, be - gins her mild reign.» Stanzas 2–3 are printed as text in two columns below the music (2 left, 3 right), under the reference line «866, 298.» in italic figures (= the words may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 866 or 298), numbered «2» and «3» without periods (written «2.», «3.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book), followed by «Thomas Hastings.» in italics. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. The long verse lines are broken for width in the print («echoes are / ringing ;», «mingle in / song.», «from / ocean ;», «commo- / tion,»); each verse line is one line here, and «commo-tion» is joined. The print sets a thin space before «! : ;» («morning !», «lain !», «mourning :», «springing ;», «along ;», «ringing ;», «ocean ;», «high ;»); it is closed up here. The apostrophe of «Zion's» is written straight. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.