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• (Posted 2015-08-16)  CPDL #36480:  MusicXML

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-08-16).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 71 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. The other seven stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below.

• CPDL #31826: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-05-03).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 45 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Music from 1786, note shapes added (4-shape). Stanza 2 added from Isaac Watts adaptation of Psalm 25.

General Information

Title: Norton
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1785

Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, his adaptation of Psalm 25

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Original text and translations

English text

Mine eyes and my desire
Are ever to the Lord;
I love to plead His promises,
And rest upon His word.

When shall the sovereign grace
Of my forgiving God
Restore me from those dangerous ways
My wand'ring feet have trod?