Golgotha (William Billings)

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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-08-10).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 36 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Oval-note edition.
  • CPDL #32662:  Icon_pdf.gif
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-08-10).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 36 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).

General Information

Title: Golgotha
First Line: Hark! From the tombs a doleful sound
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1781

Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, his Hymn 63 in Book 2.

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Original text and translations

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Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound;
My ears, attend the cry;
"Ye living men, come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.

"Princes, this clay must be your bed,
In spite of all your towers;
The tall, the wise, the reverend head
Must lie as low as ours!"

Great God! is this our certain doom?
And are we still secure?
Still walking downward to our tomb,
And yet prepare no more?

Grant us the powers of quickening grace,
To fit our souls to fly,
Then, when we drop this dying flesh,
We'll rise above the sky.