Macclesfield (My life's a shade) (William Knapp)
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General Information
Title: Macclesfield (My life's a shade)
Composer: William Knapp
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments:
Published:
Description: late harmony version from Centenary Tunebook (1839)
External websites:
Further verses at
http://stoddardfamily.home.comcast.net/L/138.html (Northern Harmony site) or
http://www.ccel.org/w/wesley/hymn/jwg09/jwg0931.html (Methodist Hymnbook)
Original text and translations
English text
My life's a shade; my days
Apace to death decline;
My Lord is life, he'll raise
My dust again, e'en mine.
Chorus:
Sweet truth to me, I shall arise
And with these eyes my savior see.
