Digby (Timothy Swan)

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• (Posted 2016-12-26)  CPDL #42407:   

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-12-26).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 83 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). The other nine stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Digby
First Line: God counts the sorrows of his saints
Composer: Timothy Swan
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: First published in Swan's The New England Harmony, 1801, p. 36. Words by Isaac Watts, 1717, paraphrase of Psalm 56, with ten stanzas. Swan used the sixth stanza of Watts' paraphrase in his composition.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 56.