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WHITESTOWN

Composer: Ward
Published in 5 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Ward

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Tune Information

Title:	WHITESTOWN
Composer:	Ward
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Incipit:	15555 67543 45567
Notes:	Attributed to "Howd" in The Musical Harmonist. Attributed to Thomas Howell in Wyeth's, The Hesperian Harp, and The Sacred Harp. Misattributed to "Ward" in Southern Harmony. The exact composer is not known.
Key:	e minor or modal
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey

Where nothing dwells but beasts of prey,
Or men as fierce and wild as they,
He bids the oppressed and poor repair,
And build them towns and cities there.
They sow the fields, and trees they plant,
Whose yearly fruit supplies their want;
Their race grows up from fruitful stocks,
Their wealth increases with their flocks.

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Mortality and Hope

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