Humility (Samuel Babcock)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-06-19). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 61 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). All seven stanzas of Watts' paraphrase included.
General Information
Title: Humility
First Line: God of my life, look gently down
Composer: Samuel Babcock
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 Babcock's The Middlesex Harmony, 1803, p. 82. Words by Isaac Watts, 1717, paraphrase of Psalm 39, part 3, in seven stanzas.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 39.