Reward of Saints

Daughter of Zion, awake from thy sadness

No. 1005
Metre 11s. P.
Tune DAUGHTER OF ZION.
Words Fitzgerald's Col.
Music Unknown.
Key G major
Singing key F major
Time 3/4
3 stanzas

Words

Daughter of Zion, awake from thy sadness;Awake, for thy foes shall oppress thee no more.Bright, o'er thy hills, dawns the day-star of gladness,Arise, for the night of thy sorrow is o'er.

Strong were thy foes; but the arm that subdued them,And scattered their legions, was mightier far;They fled like the chaff from the scourge that pursued them;In vain were their steeds and their chariots of war.

Daughter of Zion, the power that hath saved thee,Extolled with the harp and the timbrel shall be:Shout; for the foe is destroyed that enslaved thee,The oppressor is vanquished, and Zion is free.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «REWARD OF SAINTS.»; hymn number «1005» (large), tune name «DAUGHTER OF ZION. 11s. P.» centred over the music (condensed capitals; the «P.» in a smaller size), «UNKNOWN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear: under system 1, with «1.» before it, «Daughter of Zi - on, awake from thy sadness; Awake, for thy foes shall oppress thee no more.» (system 1 ends with two heavy strokes and «Fine.»); under system 2, «Bright, o'er thy hills, dawns the day-star of gladness, A - rise, for the night of thy sorrow is o'er.» (system 2 ends with «D. C. for Chorus.»). The chorus is printed once, in italics, as the second lyric line of system 1, after «D. C.—»: «Daughter of Zi - on, awake from thy sadness; A-wake for thy foes shall oppress thee no more.» — the words of lines 1–2 of stanza 1, but with no comma after «A-wake»; it is sung to system 1 after the D. C. and ends at «Fine.». Stanza 1 and the chorus are given below in the order sung; «Zi - on», «A - rise» and the chorus's «A-wake» are written as whole words, «day-star» keeps its printed hyphen. Stanzas 2–3 follow as text in the left and right columns (no reference line is printed for this hymn), numbered «2» and «3» without periods (written «2.», «3.» here), then «Fitzgerald's Col.» in italics. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print; the long lines are broken for width («arm that / subdued them,», «mightier / far ;», «scourge / that pursued them ;», «char- / iots of war.», «hath / saved thee,», «timbrel / shall be :», «en- / slaved thee,», «Zion / is free.»); each verse line is one line here, «char-iots» and «en-slaved» are joined. The print sets a thin space before «; :» («sadness ;», «foes ;», «far ;», «them ;», «be :», «Shout ;»); it is closed up here. Apostrophes are written straight («o'er», «Fitzgerald's»). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.