All in the April Evening

This Thursday evening, the Bible recorded Jesus celebrated His Last Supper with the disciples. Later on this same night, He went to Gethsemane and prayed three times that the Father's will be done. Then He was arrested. Jesus was crucifixion on Friday. His resurrection was on Sunday next. Thus, through death and resurrection, Jesus secures both the spiritual life and future resurrection of all who believed.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16 KJV)

Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952) wrote a four-voice and piano accompaniment setting, "All in An April Evening" to Irish poet-writer Katharine Tynan Hinkson's poem, "Sheep and Lambs."

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Royal Ballet Sinfonia (1999)
Orchestral arrangement:
- All in the April Evening (Hinkson, arr. Lane)


Sheep and Lambs
Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861 - 1931)

All in the April evening
April airs were abroad;
The sheep with their little lambs
Passed me by on the road.

The sheep with their little lambs
Passed me by on the road;
All in the April evening
I thought on the Lamb of God.

The lambs were weary and crying
With a weak, human cry.
I thought on the Lamb of God
Going meekly to die.

Up in the blue, blue mountains
Dewy pastures are sweet;
Rest for the little bodies,
Rest for the little feet.

But for the Lamb of God,
Up on the hill-top green,
Only a cross of shame
Two stark crosses between.

All in the April evening,
April airs were abroad;
I saw the sheep with their lambs,
And thought on the Lamb of God.