When all my past days to review (Thomas Haweis)

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• (Posted 2018-12-11)  CPDL #52595:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-12-11).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 47 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition, as written in 1791. All five stanzas of Haweis' hymn included.

• (Posted 2018-12-11)  CPDL #52594:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-12-11).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 44 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). All five stanzas of Haweis' hymn included.

General Information

Title: When all my past days to review
Composer: Thomas Haweis
Lyricist: Thomas Haweis

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1791 in Carmina Christo, or Hymns to the Savior, no. 1, p. 2
Description: Haweis called this Hymn One; it has also been called Communion. Words by Thomas Haweis, with five stanzas.

Original text and translations

English text 1. When all my past days to review, And ponder my ways I begin, The further I search I pursue, I trace but corruption and sin. 2. Soon as from the womb I was brought, My race was in evil begun: My Spirit with frowardness fraught, And falsehood beguiled my tongue.

3. To manhood from youth as I grew, My reason to passion the slave: As custom, as fashion still drew, I rush down the steep to the grave. 4. My conscience, that monitor true, Remonstrates, but little avails: The good which I would, I can't do, The evil I would not, prevails.

5. Then take me, Lord, such as I am, And make me just what I should be; I'll take to my self all the shame, And give all the glory to thee.