Washington-Street (William Billings)
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- CPDL #17580: Finale 2008
- Editor: Joachim Kelecom (submitted 2008-07-14). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 57 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Washington-Street (Now shall my inward Joys)
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
Published: in The Continental Harmony in 1794. Text by Isaac Watts.
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.Now shall my inward joys arise,
- And burst into a song;
- Almighty love inspires my heart,
- And pleasure tunes my tongue.
- 2.God on his thirsty Zion hill
- Some mercy drops has thrown,
- And solemn oaths have bound his love
- To shower salvation down.
- 3.Why do we then indulge our fears,
- Suspicions, and complaints?
- Is he a God, and shall his grace
- Grow weary of his saints?
- 4.Can a kind woman e'er forget
- The infant of her womb?
- And 'mongst a thousand tender thoughts
- Her suckling have no room?
- 5."Yet," saith the Lord, "should nature change,
- And mothers monsters prove,
- Zion still dwells upon the heart
- Of everlasting love.
- 6."Deep on the palms of both my hands
- I have engraved her name;
- My hands shall raise her ruined walls,
- And build her broken frame?"