Wilt thou forgive (Denis Mason)

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Editor: Denis Mason (submitted 2004-07-01).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 124 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Originally posted April 1, 2002.

General Information

Title: Wilt thou forgive
Composer: Denis Mason
Lyricist: John Donne

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: ATB

Genre: SacredAnthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: composer

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Original text and translations

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Wilt thou forgive that sin, where I begun
which is my sin though it were done before?
Wilt thou forgive those sins through which I run and do run still,
though still I do deplore?
When thou hast done, thou hast not done, for I have more.

Wilt thou forgive that sin by which I won others to sin?
and made my sin their door?
Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun a year or two
but wallow’d in a score?
When thou hast done, thou hast not done, for I have more.

I have a sin of fear that when I've spun will perish on the shore;
Sware by thy self, that at my death thy son
shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore.
And having done that, thou hast done, I fear no more.