Cobham (William Billings)

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Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2009-05-12). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 81 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Cobham
Composer: William Billings

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred

Language: English
Instruments:
Published: 1794

Description:

External websites: http://www.mrlauer.org/music/work/billings/cobham/

Original text and translations

Teach me the measure of my days,
Thou Maker of my frame;
I would survey life’s narrow space,
And learn how frail I am.

A span is all that we can boast,
An inch or two of time;
Man is but vanity and dust
In all his flower and prime.