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Its herbs and flowers, its fruit and shade: | Its herbs and flowers, its fruit and shade: | ||
Peopled with life of various forms, | Peopled with life of various forms, | ||
Fishes and fowl, and beasts and | Fishes and fowl, and beasts and worms. | ||
4. View the broad sea's majestic plains, | 4. View the broad sea's majestic plains, |
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-11-24). Score information: Unknown, 2 pages, 80 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Two more pairs of stanzas from Doddridge's hymn included.
General Information
Title: Washington
First Line: Ye sons of men, with joy record
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Philip Doddridge
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1784
Description: First published in The Massachusetts Harmony, 1784, pp. 88-89. Composer has been identified as American, but remains anonymous. Words by Philip Doddridge, 1766, hymn entitled God adored for his goodness, with six stanzas. The first two stanzas of Doddridge's hymn were used in the composition.
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Original text and translations
English text 1. Ye sons of men, with joy record |
3. Sing earth in verdant robes arrayed, |
5. But O! That brighter world above, |