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Though you require the best attire, | Though you require the best attire, | ||
Appearing fine and fair, | Appearing fine and fair, | ||
Yet death will come into the room, | Yet death will come into the room, | ||
And strip you of them there. | And strip you of them there. | ||
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:''An Address to All'' | :''An Address to All'' | ||
1. I sing a song which doth belong | 1. I sing a song which doth belong | ||
To all the human race, | To all the human race, | ||
Concerning death, which steals the breath, | Concerning death, which steals the breath, | ||
And blasts the comely face; | And blasts the comely face; | ||
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2. No human power can stop the hour | 2. No human power can stop the hour | ||
Wherein a mortal dies; | Wherein a mortal dies; | ||
A Caesar may be great today, | A Caesar may be great today, | ||
Yet death will close his eyes: | Yet death will close his eyes: | ||
Though some do strive and do arrive | Though some do strive and do arrive | ||
To riches and renown. | To riches and renown. | ||
Enjoying health and swim in wealth, | Enjoying health and swim in wealth, | ||
Yet death will bring them down. | Yet death will bring them down. | ||
3. Though beauty grace your comely face | 3. Though beauty grace your comely face | ||
With roses white and red, | With roses white and red, | ||
A dying fall will spoil it all, | A dying fall will spoil it all, | ||
For Absalom is dead; | For Absalom is dead; | ||
Though you acquire the best attire, | Though you acquire the best attire, | ||
Appearing fine and fair, | Appearing fine and fair, | ||
Yet death will come into the room, | Yet death will come into the room, | ||
And strip you naked there. | And strip you naked there. | ||
4. The princes high and beggars die, | 4. The princes high and beggars die, | ||
And mingle with the dust. | And mingle with the dust. | ||
The rich, the brave, the Negro slave, | The rich, the brave, the Negro slave, | ||
The wicked and the just; | The wicked and the just; | ||
Therefore prepare to meet thy God, | Therefore prepare to meet thy God, | ||
Before it be too late. | Before it be too late. | ||
Or else you'll weep, lament and cry, | Or else you'll weep, lament and cry, | ||
Lost in a ruined state.}} | Lost in a ruined state.}} | ||
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Revision as of 13:48, 17 November 2020
General information
Here is a song, which doth belong is a text first recorded in the Hymn Tune Index in 1794, as the underlay of the tune 'West-Sudbury' by William Billings. Billings attributes the text as 'Words from Mr. John Peck', but only gives one Double Common Metre verse. Elisha West of Woodstock, Vermont similarly set the hymn to a Double Common Meter tune ('Solemn Song') in his collection The Musical Concert (Northampton: 1802).
A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, compiled by Paul Himes and Jonathan Wilson (Greenfield, MA: published by Clark & Hunt, 1818) gives seven Common Metre verses of the text, as Hymn 123.
Settings by composers
- William Billings — Hatfield English STB
- William Billings — West-Sudbury English SATB
- William Walker — An Address for All English SATB
- Elisha West — Solemn Song English SATB
Text and translations
English text William Billings, The Continental Harmony (Boston: 1794) |
Smith and Jones, Hymns Original and Selected, Fifth Ed., 1812 |
Himes & Wilson, A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, 1818 |
William Walker, Southern and Western Pocket Harmonist, 1846 |
Reference
- Himes, Paul, and Jonathan Wilson. 1818. A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors. Greenfield, Massachusetts: Clark & Hunt. 360 pp.
- Smith, Elias, and Abner Jones. 1812. Hymns Original and Selected For the Use of Christians, Fifth Edition, Corrected. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Herald Office. 360 pp.
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