Maryland (William Billings)

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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-01-19).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 72 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition.

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Title: Maryland
First Line: And must this body die
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1778

Description: Published in The Singing-Master's Assistant, 1778, p. 29. Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, his Hymn 110 of Book 2.

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Original text and translations

English text

And must this body die?
This mortal frame decay?
And must these active limbs of mine
Lie mould'ring in the clay?

Corruption, earth, and worms
Shall but refine this flesh,
Till my triumphant spirit comes
To put it on afresh.

God my Redeemer lives,
And often from the skies
Looks down, and watches all my dust,
Till He shall bid it rise.

Arrayed in glorious grace
Shall these vile bodies shine,
And every shape, and every face,
Look heav'nly and divine.

These lively hopes we owe
To Jesus' dying love;
We would adore His grace below,
And sing His power above.

Dear Lord, accept the praise
Of these our humble songs,
Till tunes of nobler sound we raise
With our immortal tongues.