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{{FirstLine| O love! What a secret to mortals thou art}} {{Composer|William Billings}}

'''Editor – Composer:''' [[William Billings]] ...es, ye sons of light'') is a set-piece (i.e. a through-composed setting of a metrical text).

...or over thirty years in Boston, and the first American composer to publish a book entirely of his own compositions.<br> ...lliam Billings)|''Independence'']], and [[Lamentation over Boston (William Billings)|''Lamentation over Boston'']].<br>

..., many of them taken from his paraphrases of the [[Psalms]]. He also wrote a book of [[Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Isaac Watts)|Hymns and Spiritual Songs ...Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship''. London: J. Clark.

*[[William Billings]] **[[The Lord descended from above (William Billings)|The Lord descended]] SATB (English anthem, Thomas Sternhold ''Old Version'

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