Caledonia (Samuel Babcock)

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• (Posted 2016-06-13)  CPDL #40008:  MusicXML

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-06-13).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 76 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition.

• (Posted 2016-06-13)  CPDL #40007: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-06-13).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 83 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Another stanza (5) added from Cowper's hymn, the only other stanza that fits the music.

General Information

Title: Caledonia
First Line: I will praise thee every day
Composer: Samuel Babcock
Lyricist: William Cowper

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 77. 77

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: First published in Babcock's The Middlesex Harmony, 1795, pp. 29-31. Words by William Cowper, 1759, entitled O Lord, I will praise thee!, based on Isaiah chapter 12, in five stanzas.

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Original text and translations

English text I will praise thee every day Now thine anger’s turned away! Comfortable thoughts arise From the bleeding sacrifice. Here in the fair gospel field, Wells of free salvation yield Streams of life, a plenteous store, And my soul shall thirst no more.

Jesus is become at length My salvation and my strength; And his praises shall prolong, While I live, my pleasant song. Praise ye, then, his glorious name, Publish his exalted fame! Still his worth your praise exceeds, Excellent are all his deeds.

Raise again the joyful sound, Let the nations roll it round! Zion shout, for this is he, God the Savior dwells in thee.