Name: 335 Return Again by Kyle Johnston
Duration: 2 min 23 s
Description: Small group singing during the early days of the pandemic, 2020

Arranged by Andrew Kane

Text: Anon. German hymn, tr. Theodore Baker, 1894

The Infant King

Lo, how a rose e'er blooming

11 Minister's Farewell CH

A captivating song of warning, written by William Walker and a special hymn by Charlotte Elizabeth that has me thinking more about each line:

Soldier, go, but not to claim
Mould’ring spoils of earth-born treasure;
Not to build a vaunting name,
Not to dwell in tents of pleasure:
Dream not that the way is smooth,
Hope not that the thorns are roses;
Turn no wishful eye of youth,
Where the sunny beam reposes,
Thou hast sterner work to do
Hosts to cut thy passage thru;
Close behind thee gulfs are burning –
Forward, then there’s no returning.

Soldier, rest; – but not for thee
Spreads the world her downy pillow;
On the rock thy couch must be,
While around thee chafes the billow:
Thine must be a watchful sleep
wearier than another’s waking.
Such a charge as thou must keep,
Brooks no moment of forsaking:
Sleep as on the battlefield,
Girded – grasping sword and shield;
Those thou canst not name nor number,
Steal upon thy broken slumber.

317 CH The Christian Soldier

Small group singing during the early days of the pandemic, 2020

335 Return Again

Sacred Harp - 33b - Abbeville. Sung in Durham, NC, spring 2020.

Abbeville - Lydia Stefani Kyle Molly

Mutual Love

love letter to the southern appalachians - 10.21.23

Rear View Mirror

"Come Holy Ghost" (live) - Tallis

Written for the Stokes family, in memory of Oliver Kindig-Stokes. Recorded at the NYC All-Day Singing Composium, First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, NY; September 16, 2017.

Score: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MdkclEhBZCK_vBB9pPrjHXpa0ZjNwFMQ/view?usp=sharing

335 Return Again

Kyle Johnston

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