My life's a shade (William Knapp)

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• CPDL #10870:

Editor: Tim Henderson (added 2006-01-28).   Score information: A4, 1 pages, 43 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Macclesfield (My life's a shade)
Composer: William Knapp

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymns

Language: English
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Published:

Description: late harmony version from Centenary Tunebook (1839)

External websites: Further verses at
http://stoddardfamily.home.comcast.net/L/138.html (Northern Harmony site) or
http://www.ccel.org/w/wesley/hymn/jwg09/jwg0931.html (Methodist Hymnbook)

Original text and translations

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My life's a shade, my days
Apace to death decline:
My Lord is life, he'll raise
My dust again, e'en mine;
Sweet truth to me! I shall arise
And with these eyes My Saviour see.