Lift up your eyes, ye sons of light (William Billings)
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- Editor: Mark Winges (submitted 2008-11-17). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 69 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Dynamics added
General Information
Title: Lift up your eyes, ye sons of light
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Set piece
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1786 in The Suffolk Harmony, no. 15, p. 30
Description: This set-piece (through-composed setting of a metrical text) was first published on pp30-33 of William Billings' The Suffolk Harmony, Boston: 1786, where it is headed 'An Anthem Word from Dr Watts'. Hymn Tune Index tune number 4676.
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Original text and translations
English text
Lift up your eyes, ye sons of light,
Up to his throne of shining grace;
See what immortal glories sit
Round the sweet beauties of his face!
Amongst a thousand harps and songs,
Jesus, the God, exalted reigns;
His sacred name fills all their tongues,
And echoes through the heav'nly plains.