As a Shaker song, today it would be performed as a unison song, likely unaccompanied. However a number of choral arrangements and have been created more recently - some of these are linked below.
Recent hymn-books which it has been published in include:
- The Gift to Be Simple
- compiled by Edward Demming Andrews in 1940
Downloads
Arrangements for purchase
look inside | The Beautiful Treasure Composed by Haan. For SATB choir, keyboard, and flute. Ash Wednesday. Easy-Moderately Easy. Published by Concordia Publishing House (CR.98-3758U1). |
look inside | Shaker Suite: Three Shaker Spirituals Composed by Nina Gilbert (arranger). For SSAA choir (a cappella). Spirituals, Folk Hymns. Easy-Medium. Choral octavo. Text language: English. Published by Treble Clef Music Press (TC.TC-162). |
On-line examples
Lyrics
O the beautiful treasure laid up for the wise,How precious the value, how glorious the prize.
Far brighter than riches on princes’ brow,
And richer than royalty can bestow.
O the beautiful treasure laid up for the wise,
How precious the value, how glorious the prize.
O the beautiful treasure provided by God,
And promised to good people who follow the word;
And streams of sweet mercy shall bring them home
To rest from the sorrowful paths they roam.
O the beautiful treasure provided by God
And promised to good people who follow the word.
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