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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
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{{LinkText|Some seraph, lend your heavenly tongue}}
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1. Some seraph, lend your heavenly tongue,
Or harp of golden string;
That I may raise a lofty song
To our immortal King.
 
2. Thy names, how infinite they be!
Great everlasting One!
Boundless Thy might and majesly,
And unconfined Thy throne!
 
3. Thy glories shine of wondrous size,
And wondrous large Thy grace;
Immortal day breaks from Thine eyes,
And Gabriel veils his face.
 
4. Thine essence is a vast abyss,
Which angels cannot sound,
An ocean of infinities,
Where all our thoughts are drowned.}}
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5. The mysteries of creation lie
Beneath enlightened minds;
Thoughts can ascend above the sky,
And fly before the winds.
 
6. Reason may grasp the massy hills,
And stretch from pole to pole,
But half Thy name our spirit fills,
And overloads our soul.
 
7. In vain our haughty reason swells;
For nothing's found in Thee
But boundless inconceivables,
And vast eternity!}}
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''The Infinite'' by Isaac Watts


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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-19).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 55 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Four-part version (Treble-Counter-Tenor-Bass). Oval note edition. Counter written and music revised by B. C. Johnston, 2015. The other six stanzas from Watts' poem added below.
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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-19).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 58 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Four-part version (Treble-Counter-Tenor-Bass). Note shapes added (4-shape). Counter written and music revised by B. C. Johnston, 2015. The other six stanzas from Watts' poem added below.
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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-19).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 53 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Three-part version. Oval note edition. Revised by B. C. Johnston, 2015. The other six stanzas of Watts' poem added below.
  • (Posted 2015-07-19)  CPDL #36166:  Icon_pdf.gif
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-19).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 55 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Three-part version. Note shapes added (4-shape). Revised by B. C. Johnston, 2015. The other six stanzas of Watts' poem added below.

General Information

Title: Salem
First Line: Some seraph, lend your heavenly tongue
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1800

Description: First published in The Modern Collection, 1800, p. 160, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass. Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, Lyric Poems, Book 1, entitled The Infinite, with seven stanzas.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Some seraph, lend your heavenly tongue.

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