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Text:Happy The City
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:WINCHESTER NEW
Media:MIDI file

12051. Happy The City

1 Happy the city, where their sons
Like pillars round a palace set,
And daughters bright as polished stones
Give strength and beauty to the state.

2 Happy the country, where the sheep,
The cattle, corn, have large increase;
Where men securely work or sleep,
Nor sons of plunder break the peace.

3 Happy the nation thus endowed,
But more divinely blest are those
On whom the all-sufficient God
Himself with all His grace bestows.

Text Information
First Line: Happy the city, where their sons
Title: Happy The City
Author: Isaac Watts
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: The Psalms of David, 1719, alt.
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: WINCHESTER NEW
Meter: LM
Key: B♭ Major
Source: Musikalisches Handbuch, Hamburg, 1690
Copyright: Public Domain



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