Newport (Daniel Read)

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• CPDL #31825: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-05-03).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 29 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Music as in 1786, note shapes added (4-shape). Stanza 2 added from Isaac Watts 1719 Hymn 11.

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Title: Newport
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: unknown

Published: 1785

Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, his Hymn 11

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Original text and translations

English text

I send the joys of earth away;
Away, ye tempters of the mind!
False as the smooth, deceitful sea,
And empty as the whistling wind.

Your streams were floating me along
Down to the gulf of black despair,
And whilst I listened to your song,
Your streams had e'en conveyed me there.

Lord, I adore Thy matchless grace,
That warned me of that dark abyss,
That drew me from those treach'rous seas,
And bid me seek superior bliss.

Now to the shining realms above
I stretch my hands and glance mine eyes;
O for the pinions of a dove,
To bear me to the upper skies!