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Why, on the bending willows hung,
Israel, still sleeps thy tuneful string?
Still mute remains thy sullen tongue,
And Zion’s song denies to sing?
Awake! thy sweetest raptures raise;
Let harp and voice unite their strains;
Thy promised King his sceptre sways;
Jesus, thine own Messiah, reigns!
No taunting foes thy song require;
No strangers mock thy captive chain;
But friends provoke the silent lyre,
And brethren ask the holy strain.
Nor fear thy Salem’s hills to wrong,
If other lands thy triumph share:
A heavenly city claims thy song:
A brighter Salem rises there.
By foreign streams no longer roam;
Nor, weeping, think of Jordan’s flood;
In every clime behold a home
In every temple see thy God.
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LYRICS
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Meter:
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8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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Dates:
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1823
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Bible Refs:
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Ps 137:2;
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LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Year
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Song #
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| 2005 | # 286 | | 1866 | # 1041 |
MUSIC
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Name:
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CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
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Meter:
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8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
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Writer(s):
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Dates:
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1874
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LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Song #
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Key
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| # 86 | A | | # 226 | Bb | | # 204 | Bb | | # 194 | Bb | | # 58 | Bb | | # 182 | Bb | | # 443 | Bb | | # 196 | Bb | | # 35 | Bb | | # 279 | C | | # 129 | C | | # 423 | No key |
ALTERNATIVE TUNES
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Name
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meter
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| 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) |
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