Number Four (Daniel Belknap)

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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-11-28).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 90 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).

General Information

Title: Number Four
First Line: Mankind must all return to dust
Composer: Daniel Belknap
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1797

Description: First published in The Harmonist's Companion, 1797, p. 12. Words by an anonymous author, apparently only printed here.

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Original text and translations

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Mankind must all return to dust,
From whence their nature sprung at first;
They soon shall wither like a flower,
Which grows and lives but just an hour.

They soon shall huddle to the grave,
They soon must quit the slender stage,
The feeble thread will soon be cut,
Millions are turning to their dust.