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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
 
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<poem>
Shall Wisdom cry aloud,
Shall Wisdom cry aloud,
And not her speech be heard?
And not her speech be heard?
The voice of God's eternal Word,
The voice of God's eternal Word,
Deserves it no regard?
Deserves it no regard?}}
</poem>


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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-06-29).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 41 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 86 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Framingham
First Line: Shall wisdom cry aloud
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1779

Description: First published in Music In Miniature, 1779, p. 3; revised in The Psalm-Singer's Amusement, 1781, pp. 4-5. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, his Hymn 92 of Book 1, but Billings has substituted "Son" for "Word."


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Original text and translations

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Shall Wisdom cry aloud,
And not her speech be heard?
The voice of God's eternal Word,
Deserves it no regard?