Albany (Daniel Read)
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- CPDL #31785:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-04-27). Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 27 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Stanzas 2-4 added from Isaac Watts 1719 Hymn 56.
- CPDL #32384:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-07-04). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 36 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Oval-note edition.
General Information
Title: Albany
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TrATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1785
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, Hymn 56
External websites: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/watts/psalmshymns page 781
Original text and translations
English text
No, I shall envy them no more
Who grow profanely great,
Though they increase their golden store,
And rise to wondrous height.
They taste of all the joys that grow
Upon this earthly clod!
Well, they may search the creature through,
For they have ne'er seen God.
Shake off the thoughts of dying too,
And think your life your own;
But death comes hast'ning on to you,
To mow your glory down.
Go now, and boast of all your stores,
And tell how bright you shine;
Your heaps of glitt'ring dust are yours,
And my Redeemer's mine.