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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-04-24).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 40 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Oval note edition. The other five stanzas included from Watts' paraphrase.
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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-04-24).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 42 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). The other five stanzas included from Watts' paraphrase.

General Information

Title: Westborough
First Line: A span is all that we can boast
Composer: Daniel Belknap
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: First published in Belknap's Middlesex Collection, 1802. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 90, Part 2, in six stanzas. Belknap used the second stanza in his composition; he revised the second line of Watts' paraphrase.

Watts: An inch or two of time
Belknap: How short the fleeting time

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 90.