Forget thee I will not (Benjamin Milgrove)
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Title: Forget thee I will not
Composer: Benjamin Milgrove
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: SATB with organ
Published: 1781
Description: Milgrove was Precentor of the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel in Bath. This setting comes from "Twelve hymns and a favourite lyric poem written by Doctor Watts; set to music for four, and five voices, with organ accompaniments. . . " Printed for the author, and sold at his house in Bond Street, Bath, 1781. The general congregation (sometimes divided into men and women) should sing the Air.
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Original text and translations
English text
Forget thee I will not, I cannot, thy name
engrav’d on my heart doth for ever remain:
the palms of my hands whilst I look on,
I see the wounds I received, when suffering for thee.
I feel at my heart all that sight and thy groans,
for thou art most near me, my flesh and my bones,
in all thy distresses thy head feels the pain,
yet all are most needful, not one is in vain.
Forget thee I will not, I cannot, thy name
engrav’d on my heart doth for ever remain: