The dying Christian's last farewell (William Billings)
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- CPDL #15671:
- Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-14). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 119 kbytes Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The dying Christian's last farewell
Composer: William Billings
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthems
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1794
Description:
External websites: http://www.mrlauer.org/music/
Original text and translations
English text
My friends, I am going a long journey,
never to return.
Farewell, fare you well, fare you well, my friends.
And God grant we may meet in that land of harmony,
where the wicked cease from troubling
and where the weary are at rest,
where pleasures dwell forevermore, and joys that never fade.
My friends, I am summon’d to appear at the great tribunal.
Fare you well, my friend.
And God grant we may meet in that land of harmony,
where the wicked cease from troubling
and where the weary are at rest.
Farewell, farewell, farewell.