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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
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{{LinkText|Come, Lord Jesus (Isaac Watts)}}
Ye slumb’ring saints, a heav’nly host
stands waiting at your gaping tombs;
let ev’ry sacred sleeping dust
leap into life for Jesus comes.}}


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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-08-20).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 2 pages, 54 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 86 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Ye slumb'ring saints, a heav'nly host
Composer: William Billings
Tune: Great-Plain
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: The Continental Harmony, 1794

Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1707, Lyric Poems, Book I.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Come, Lord Jesus (Isaac Watts).