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General information
Shepherds rejoice, lift up your eyes is a poem by Isaac Watts, from Horae Lyricae, 1706, entitled The Nativity of Christ. It was reprinted as Hymn 4 in Book 1 of Isaac Watts's Hymns and Spiritual Songs of 1709. It describes the Annunciation to the shepherds.
Settings by composers
- Leonard P. Breedlove STB
- Oliver Holden SATB
- Stephen Jarvis SATB
- James Leach SATB (alternative words)
- William Seal SATB (alternative words, vv. 1,2 & 5)
Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above
- William Billings — Friendship
- James P. Carrell — Christmas Anthem
Text and translations
English text Shepherds rejoice, lift up your eyes, |
Thus Gabriel sung, and straight around |
English text Alternative words |
Thus Gabriel sung: the heav'nly angels throng. |
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