Bible Songs — Funeral Occasions

"Cast Thy Burden on the Lord."

Cast thy burden on the Lord,

No. 1377
Tune "CAST THY BURDEN ON THE LORD."
Music Wm. B. Bradbury.
Key C major
Singing key B♭ major
Time 4/2
2 stanzas

Words

Cast thy burden on the Lord,Cast thy burden on the Lord,Cast thy burden on the Lord,Cast thy burden on the Lord,And he will sustain thee, and strengthen thee, and comfort thee;He will sustain thee, and comfort thee,He will sustain thee, and comfort thee.He will sustain thee, He will comfort thee:Cast thy burden on the Lord,Cast thy burden on the Lord.

Cast thy burden on the Lord,

About this hymn

As printed As printed (PDF 586, printed p. 585, systems 2–5; system 1 is the end of hymn 1376): hymn number «1377» (large, left) and the title «"CAST THY BURDEN ON THE LORD."» centred, in quotation marks (condensed capitals and small capitals); under it, centred, the epigraph in small type «"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, aud he shall sustain thee."—Ps. 55 : 22.» — «aud» is the print's, a turned «n» for «and» (printer's slip, kept as printed; the proposed correction «and» is in `truth.json`); on the next line at the right «WM. B. BRADBURY.» (capitals and small capitals); no author of the words, no meter, no tune name, no copyright line; folio «585». An anthem in prose: no stanza numbers, no refrain. The words run as one line between the staves; in system 2 a second line under it, «Cast thy burden on the Lord,» (with a wide gap after «Cast»), belongs to the tenor and bass, who enter while the alto sings the main line; it is given after the main text. Over the last bar, in italics, «Repeat pp»: the last system («He will sustain thee, … on the Lord.», between the repeat signs) is sung twice, the second time pianissimo — the repeat is not written out below. Lines here follow the musical phrases (the print runs the prose across the systems; the join across systems 2–3 is «Cast thy / bur - den»). The words divided under the notes are joined («bur-den», «sus-tain», «com-fort» → «burden», «sustain», «comfort»); «burden», «sustain», «comfort» and «strengthen» are printed unbroken in several places; the divisions as printed are in `lyrics_syllables.txt`. The thin space before «;» and «:» («thee ;», «thee :», «55 : 22») is closed up; quotation marks are written straight. Spelling and punctuation are the print's.