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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, |
Death and Eternity by Isaac Watts, 1706