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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
{{Text|English|
{{LinkText|Shall wisdom cry aloud}}
Shall Wisdom cry aloud,
And not her speech be heard?
The voice of God's eternal Word,
Deserves it no regard?}}


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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-06-29).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 41 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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General Information

Title: Framingham
First Line: Shall wisdom cry aloud
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1779

Description: First published in Music In Miniature, 1779, p. 3; revised in The Psalm-Singer's Amusement, 1781, pp. 4-5. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, his Hymn 92 of Book 1, but Billings has substituted "Son" for "Word."


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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Shall wisdom cry aloud.