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| Deal Gently With Thy Servants, Lord | Gently Lord, O gently lead us, Pilgrims in this vale of tears, And, O Lord, in mercy give us, Thy rich grace in all our fears.
Lyrics: Thomas Hastings (1831) |
| Elysian |
Burst, ye emerald gates, and bring To my raptured vision
All th'ecstatic joys that spring Round the bright elysian.
Source: Baptist Harmony, p. 471. |
| Thirty-Fourth Psalm | Through all the changing scenes of life, In trouble and in joy, The praises of my God shall still My heart and tongue employ
Source: Joseph Stephenson's setting of Tate and Brady's (1696) metrical translation of Psalm 34. |
| Fiducia | Yet another tune for John Newton's Amazing Grace
Source: Hesperian Harp (1848). |
| Invitation New | Hark I hear the harps eternal ringing on the farther shore As I near those swollen waters with their deep and solemn roar.
Status:PDF file has been made. |
| Resignation | My Shepherd will supply my need; Jehovah is his name;
In pastures fresh he makes me feed, Beside the living stream.
Source: Southern Harmony page 38. |
| Dunlap's Creek | My God, my portion, and my love, My everlasting All,
I've none but thee in heaven above, Or on this earthly ball.
Source: Southern Harmony page 276. |
| Land of Beulah | My latest sun is sinking fast, my race is nearly run, My strongest trials now are past, My triumph is begun. Question: How many people want to do this? Only the tenor/melody has musical interest. |
| Friendship | Friendship to every willing mind, opens a heav'nly treasure There may the sons of sorrow find, sources of lasting pleasure
Source: Philadelphia Songster (1799) |
| Lisbon | Farewell dear brethren of the Lord!
And I cannot tarry here; Yet we believe his gracious word, And I cannot tarry here;
Source: Henry F. Chandler, The Social Harp, 1854 |
| New Concord | O how happy are they Who their Savior obey,
And have laid up their treasures above! Tongue cannot express The sweet comfort and peace Of a soul in its earliest love.
Source: Abraham Wood, Northampton Harmony, 1799 |
Walpole | Oh, if my soul was form'd for woe, How would I vent my sighs! Repentence should like rivers flow From both my streaming eyes.
Source: Abraham Wood, Northampton Harmony, 1799 |
| Go Worship at Emmanuel's Feet | Go worship at Emmanuel's feet,
See, in his Name what wonders meet; Source: American Vocalist page 251. Status: PDF file takes 2 pages. Omitting 1 stanza reduces to 1 page. (Omitting a vertical element causes Lilypond to shrink the horizontal dimension. There must be a way to do obtain horizontal compaction without omitting the stanza.) (Omitting the grace notes doesn't have this result.) |
| Go When The Morning Shineth | Go when the morning shineth,
Go when the noon is bright; Source: American Vocalist page 268. Status: PDF of original and midi of original. PDF with altered ending and midi with altered ending. The last two chords are more shape-notey. Text of original poem is here. (Some editorial decisions are still required. Note Stanza 3 "spirit" and "mercy" are each to be pronounced as a single syllable. |
| In Evil Long | In evil long I took delight, Unawed by shame or fear;
Till a new object struck my sight, And stopped my wild career.
Source:American Vocalist page 331b. |
| Spring | The little hills on ev'ry side Rejoice in falling show'rs
The meadows drest in all their pride Perfume the air with flow'rs.
Source:P. T. Bullard, World of Music, c. 1847 |
| Psalm 119 | Had not Thy word been my delight When earthly joys were fled, My soul oppressed with sorrows' weight Had sunk amongst the dead.
Source:American Vocalist |
| No. 8 | I hear the voice of woe, I hear a brother's sigh, Then let my heart with pity flow, With tears of love mine eye.
Source:American Musical Magazine (1802) |
| All Is Well | What's this that steals, that steals across my frame? That soon will quench, will quench this vital frame?
Tune is much different from Sacred Harp #122Source:American Vocalist (page 254) Status:PDF file. |
| Canterbury New | Why should the children of a king, Go mourning all their days? Great Comforter descend and bring Some tokens of thy grace.
Source: Isaac Watts (1709) American Vocalist page 57 |
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