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Text:If Birds That Neither Sow Nor Reap
Author:Roger Williams
Tune:DUNFERMLING
Composer:Thomas Ravenscroft
Media:MIDI file

2739. If Birds That Neither Sow Nor Reap

1. If birds that neither sow nor reap
Nor store up any food
Constantly find to them and theirs
A Maker kind and good;

2. If man provide eke for his birds,
In yard, in coops, in cage;
And each bird spends in songs and tunes,
His little time and age;

3. What care will man, what care will God
For wife and children take?
Millions of birds and worlds will God
Sooner than His forsake.

Text Information
First Line: If birds that neither sow nor reap
Title: If Birds That Neither Sow Nor Reap
Author: Roger Williams (1643)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: A Key into the Language of America, 1643
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: DUNFERMLING
Composer: Thomas Ravenscroft (1621)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 13543 21543 27353
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain



Media
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(Cyber Hymnal)
MIDI file: MIDI File
(Cyber Hymnal)
Noteworthy Composer score: Noteworthy Composer score
(Cyber Hymnal)
XML score: XML score

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