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:'''Edition notes:''' Oval note edition. The other four stanzas of Flatman's hymn have been added below.
:'''Edition notes:''' Oval note edition. The other four stanzas of Flatman's hymn have been added below.

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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-05-06).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 72 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Oval note edition. The other four stanzas of Flatman's hymn have been added below.
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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-05-06).   Score information: Unknown, 2 pages, 71 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). The other four stanzas of Flatman's hymn have been added below.Re-formatted 2015-09-08.

General Information

Title: The Lark
First Line: Look up and see the unwearied sun
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Thomas Flatman

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: First published as a separate piece, published by the author in 1790 (see Kroeger 1986). Words by Thomas Flatman, 1674. Billings has used the second stanza of Flatman's hymn; the first stanza begins Awake, my soul! Awake, mine eyes. For another version of this hymn, see Awake my soul, awake mine eyes (Thomas Clark).

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Original text and translations

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1. Awake, my soul! Awake, mine eyes
β€œTis time for morning sacrifice.
Awake, and see the new-born light
Spring from the darksome womb of night.

2. Look up, and see the unwearied sun
Already hath his race begun:
The pretty lark is mounted high,
And sings her matins in the sky.

3. Arise, my soul! And thou, my voice,
In songs of early praise rejoice!
O great Creator! Heavenly King!
Thy praises ever let me sing.

4. Thy power hath made, Thy goodness kept
This fenceless body while I slept;
Yet one day more hath lent to me,
From all the powers of darkness free.

5. O keep my heart from sin secure,
My life unblameable and pure;
That, when my last of days is come,
Serenely I may wait my doom.