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Come Away To The Skies - by Paul Halley
Publication Details

Catalogue Number -
PEL2037

Voicing/Instrumentation -
SATB Choir and Piano
Optional bass/guitar & organ
(and percussion)

Level of Difficulty - Moderate

Uses/Season -
Festival, Concert, Alt. Service Anthem

Duration -
4:30 mins

Pages Music -
13 pages music - 20 page booklet

Format -
SATB/piano choral octavo

Copyright Year - 1998

SATB perusal - pages 1-3 of 13

Description/Remarks

With PEL2037 Come Away To The Skies, Paul Halley has created a new melody for Charles Wesley's beautiful text, a dedication to his wife on her birthday. Interwoven with this golden thread of new melody is the text of St. Bernard of Clairvaux's "Jesu, Dulcis Memoria" , resulting in a rich and colorful choral tapestry, a Halley hallmark.
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This work was created in 1998 specifically for the CD "Sound Over All Waters" featuring Theresa Thomason and Keramion.

Sound Clip ◙♫
"Come Away To The Skies"
from Sound Over All Waters CD
Theresa Thomason & Paul Halley
Full track below at left

Recording
Sound Over All Waters CD
PEL1001CD - Track 8

PEL1001 CD
available in physical or digital form

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Texts and Translations

Come Away To The Skies

“For His Wife, On Her Birthday” - Charles Wesley
“Jesu, Dulcis Memoria” - St. Bernard of Clairvaux

“For His Wife, On Her Birthday”
Charles Wesley

Come away to the skies, My beloved arise
And rejoice on the day thou wast born,
On that festival day Come exulting away,
To thy heavenly country return.

We have laid up our love And our treasure above,
Though our bodies continue below;
The redeem’d of the Lord We remember his word,
And with singing to Sion we go.

Now with thanks we approve The design of thy love
Which hath join’d us, in Jesus his name,
So united in heart, That we never can part,
Till we meet at the feast of the Lamb.

And there at his seat We shall suddenly meet,
And be parted in body no more,
We shall sing to our lyres With the heavenly quires,
And our Saviour in glory adore.

Hallelujah we sing To our Father and King,
And his rapturous praises repeat;
To the Lamb that was slain Hallelujah again
Sing all heaven, and fall at his feet.

For thy glory we are, Created to share
Both the nature and kingdom divine:
Created again That our souls may remain
In time and eternity thine.

“Jesu, Dulcis Memoria”
St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Jesu, dulcis memoria,
Dans vera cordis gaudia:
Sed super mel et omnia
Eius praesentia.
Nil canitur suavius,
Quam Dei Filius.

Translation:
Jesus, how sweet the very thought,
Giving true joy to the heart,
But above honey and all else
Is His presence.
Nothing more lovely is sung
Than “Son of God”.