The author and composer are unknown: is attributed as a Shaker gift song from 1849. Since then, there have been many recordings and arrangements of the song: there are many variations in the arrangement and pattern / repetitions of the first line in each verse.
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:
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.
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
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Examples
Singer self-accompaneid on a harp:
Singer with guitar? / band?
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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