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==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
'''Title:''' ''Calvary''<br> | '''Title:''' ''Calvary''<br> | ||
'''First Line:'' My thoughts, that often mount the skies<br> | |||
{{Composer|Daniel Read}} | {{Composer|Daniel Read}} | ||
{{Lyricist|Isaac Watts}} | {{Lyricist|Isaac Watts}} | ||
{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br> | {{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br> | ||
{{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}} | {{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}} {{meter|86. 86 (C.M.)}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
{{Instruments|A cappella}} | {{Instruments|A cappella}} | ||
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==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
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{{Text|English| | |||
1. My thoughts, that often mount the skies, | |||
Go search the world beneath, | |||
Where nature all in ruin lies, | |||
And owns her sovereign, death. | |||
2. The tyrant, how he triumphs here! | |||
His trophies spread around! | |||
And heaps of dust and bones appear | |||
Through all the hollow ground. | |||
3. These skulls, what ghastly figures now! | |||
How loathsome to the eyes! | |||
These are the heads we lately knew | |||
So beauteous and so wise.}} | |||
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{{Text|Simple| | |||
4. But where the souls, those deathless things, | |||
That left this dying clay ? | |||
My thoughts, now stretch out all your wings, | |||
And trace eternity. | |||
5. O that unfathomable sea! | |||
Those deeps without a shore! | |||
Where living waters gently play, | |||
Or fiery billows roar. | |||
6. Thus must we leave the banks of life, | |||
And try this doubtful sea: | |||
Vain are our groans and dying strife | |||
To gain a moment's stay.}} | |||
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7. There we shall swim in heavenly bliss, | |||
Or sink in flaming waves, | |||
While the pale carcass thoughtless lies | |||
Among the silent graves. | |||
8. Some hearty friend shall drop his tear | |||
On our dry bones, and say, | |||
"These once were strong, as mine appear; | |||
"And mine must be as they." | |||
9. Thus shall our moldering members teach | |||
What, now our senses learn: | |||
For dust and ashes loudest preach | |||
Man's infinite concern.}}''Death and Eternity'' by Isaac Watts, 1706 | |||
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[[Category:Classical music]] | [[Category:Classical music]] |
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-05-19). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 93 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Three selected additional stanzas added below.
General Information
Title: Calvary
'First Line: My thoughts, that often mount the skies
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1785
Description: First published in The American Singing-Book, 1785, p. 44; revised 1794. Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, Lyric Poems, entitled Death and Eternity, nine stanzas.
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Original text and translations
English text 1. My thoughts, that often mount the skies, |
4. But where the souls, those deathless things, |
7. There we shall swim in heavenly bliss, |