Happy City (Daniel Read)

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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-07-28).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 28 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-07-28).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 32 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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General Information

Title: Happy City
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1785

Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, adaptation of Psalm 144.

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Original text and translations

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Happy the city where their sons,
Like pillars round a palace set,
And daughters, bright as polished stones,
Give strength and beauty to the state.

Happy the country where the sheep,
Cattle, and corn, have large increase;
Where men securely work or sleep,
Nor sons of plunder break the peace.

Happy the nation thus endowed,
But more divinely blest are those
On whom the all-sufficient God
Himself with all His grace bestows.
 

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