Bible Songs — Temperance Songs

The Temperance Call

Hear the temp'rance call,

No. 1391
Tune THE TEMPERANCE CALL.
Words Anon.
Music Franz Abt.
Key C major
Singing key B♭ major
Time 4/4
3 stanzas

Words

Hear the temp'rance call,Freemen one and all,Hear your country's earnest cry;See your native landLift her beck'ning hand;—Sons of freedom, come ye nigh.

Chorus.

Chase the monster from our shore,Let his cruel reign be o'er;Chase the monster from our shore,Let his cruel reign be o'er.

Chase the monster from our shore,Let his cruel reign be o'er, be o'er.

Leave the shop and farm,Leave your bright hearths warm;To the polls! the land to save;Let your leaders beTrue and noble, free,Fearless, temp'rate, good and brave.

Hail! our Fatherland,Here thy children stand,All resolved, united, true;In the temp'rance causeNe'er to faint or pause!This our purpose is, and vow.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1391» (large, left), title «THE TEMPERANCE CALL.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph «"Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things."—1 Cor. 9: 25.» on one line; then «ANON.» at the left (words) and «FRANZ ABT.» at the right (music), capitals and small capitals; no meter, no reference line, no running head, no permission line. The three stanzas are interlinear, three lines between the staves of systems 1–2, numbered «1.»–«3.» in system 1; each stanza is six verse lines (5.5.7.5.5.7 syllables, rhymes call/all, cry/nigh, land/hand), given here as the verse lines of the poem (the staff break falls after the fourth verse line, «na-tive land / Lift her»). «CHORUS.» is printed over the treble staff in the middle of system 2. The chorus has two lines of words: the upper line, between the staves, sung by soprano, alto and tenor, and a lower line printed under the bass staff and shifted, sung by the bass in imitation; the chorus is given here once, after stanza 1: first the upper line, then the bass's line. Syllable hyphens are joined («na-tive», «Fath-er-land», «re-solved», «u-nited», «cru-el», «mon-ster»). The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» («cry ;», «polls !», «save ;»); it is closed up here. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's («temp'rance», «beck'ning», «temp'rate», «Ne'er», «o'er», «Fatherland»).