Amboy (Daniel Read)

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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-12-07).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 26 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval-note edition.

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Title: Amboy
First Line: I am not concerned to know
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 77. 77

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1785

Description: Published in The American Singing-Book, 1785. Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, his Lyric Poems, True Riches.

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Original text and translations

English text

I am not concerned to know
What tomorrow fate will do:
'Tis enough that I can say
I've possessed myself to-day:
Then, if haply midnight-death
Seize my flesh and stop my breath,
Yet tomorrow I shall be
Heir to the best part of me.