Hull - Billings, William

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"First published in ''The Suffolk Harmony'', 1786, pp. 46-47. Words by James Relly, 1758, his Hymn 58 of Part 1."

⌛ Period → Classical ◈ Genre → Sacred

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Beginner

↕ Range G2 – D5

¶ Language → English

Measures 17

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 1

CPDL # 35336

Editor Barry Johnston

Posted 2015-05-09

License Public Domain

♫Pitch Ranges

Treble

F#4 – D5

Counter

D4 – G4

Tenor

G3 – G4

Bass

G2 – A3

¶Lyrics / Text

We celebrate the praise today, Of Godhead manifest in clay, And of a woman born! The promised Son to us is given, The glories of indulgent heaven, Our nature doth adorn. Let it be told to distant lands, How softly wrapped in swaddling-bands, And in a manger laid, Was He, whom we with joy confess, The glorious Lord, our righteousness! Born of the favored maid. Long did the saints with ardor sigh To see His day, and thus did cry, "Desire of nations, come!" More blest are we who see and prove The fullness of the Father's love, Born from the virgin's womb! The Lord Himself hath given the sign Of richest grace, and love divine, Promised of old to man; How that a virgin should conceive: The wondrous tidings we believe, And praise her first-born Son.