Amboy (Daniel Read)
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CPDL #33611:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-12-07). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 26 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Oval-note edition.
CPDL #33612:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-12-07). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 51 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).
General Information
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.