Lord, what is man (Henry Purcell)

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• (Posted 2016-01-08)  CPDL #38089:          (Finale 2014)

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2016-01-08).   Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 539 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key. For Soprano or Tenor. Realized keyboard part.

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Title: A Divine Hymn Lord, what is man? Lost man?
Composer: Henry Purcell
Lyricist: William Fuller

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Solo high

Genre: Sacred, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1693 in Book 2 of Playford's Harmonia sacra

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English text

Lord, what is man, lost man,
That Thou shouldst be so mindful of him?
That the Son of God forsook his glory, His abode.
To become a poor, tormented man!
The Deity was shrunk into a span,
And that for me, O wondrous love, for me.
Reveal ye glorious spirits, when you knew the way the Son of God took to renew lost man,
Your vacant places to supply;
Blest spirits tell which did excel, which was more prevalent,
your joy or your astonishment.
That man should be assum'd into the Deity,
That for a worm, a God should die.
Oh! oh! for a quill, drawn from your wing
To write the praises of eternal love;
Oh! oh! for a voice like yours, to sing
That anthem here, which once you sung above.
Hallelujah.