All Things Fair and Bright are Thine (Oliver Shaw)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2019-11-19). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 69 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: A few minor edits, otherwise as written in 1817.
General Information
Title: All Things Fair and Bright are Thine
First Line: Thy art, O God, the life and light
Composer: Oliver Shaw
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 2vv Voicings: SS, ST or TT
Genre: Sacred, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1817 in a separate by Oliver Shaw, Providence
Description: "Sung at the oratorio performed by the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, July 5th, 1817, in presence of the President of the United States [James Monroe]. Published and sold by O. Shaw, at his Musical Repository, Providence [Rhode Island]." Words by Thomas Moore, 1816, in four stanzas of meter 88. 88. 88. Shaw used the first four lines of the first stanza in his composition.
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Original text and translations
English text 1. Thou art, O God, the life and light |
3. When night, with wings of starry gloom, |