The dying Christian's last farewell (William Billings)
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- CPDL #15671:
- Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-14). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 119 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The dying Christian's last farewell}}
Composer: William Billings
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1794 in The Continental Harmony
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External websites: http://www.mrlauer.org/music/
Original text and translations
English text
My friends, I am going a long journey,
never to return.
Farewell, fare you well, fare you well, my friends.
And God grant we may meet in that land of harmony,
where the wicked cease from troubling
and where the weary are at rest,
where pleasures dwell forevermore, and joys that never fade.
My friends, I am summon’d to appear at the great tribunal.
Fare you well, my friend.
And God grant we may meet in that land of harmony,
where the wicked cease from troubling
and where the weary are at rest.
Farewell, farewell, farewell.