My life's a shade (William Knapp)

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• CPDL #10870:

Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2006-01-28).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 43 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: late harmony version from Centenary Tunebook (1839)

CPDL #23073:   

Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2011-01-29).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 386 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: "A Funeral Hymn" From New Church Melody: Being a Set of Anthems, Psalms, Hymns, &c. on Various Occasions. In Four Parts with a great Variety of other Anthems, Psalms, Hymns, &c. composed after a Method entirely new, and never printed before

1753

http://imslp.org/wiki/New_Church_Melody_%28Knapp,_William%29

General Information

Title: Macclesfield (My life's a shade)
Composer: William Knapp

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn

Language: English
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External websites: Further verses at
http://stoddardfamily.home.comcast.net/L/138.html (Northern Harmony site) or
http://www.ccel.org/w/wesley/hymn/jwg09/jwg0931.html (Methodist Hymnbook)

Original text and translations

English text

My life's a shade; my days
Apace to death decline;
My Lord is life, he'll raise
My dust again, e'en mine.

Chorus:
Sweet truth to me, I shall arise
And with these eyes my savior see.