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Text: | Why, On The Bending Willows Hung |
Author: | James Joyce |
Tune: | CAIRO |
1 Why, on the bending willows hung,
Israel! still sleeps thy tuneful string?
Still mute remains thy silent tongue,
And Zion’s song denies to sing?
2 Awake! thy sweetest raptures raise,
Let harp and voice unite their strains;
Thy promised king His scepter sways,
Jesus, thine own Messiah, reigns!
3 No taunting foes the song require,
No strangers mock thy captive chain;
But friends provoke the silent lyre,
And brethren ask the holy strain.
4 Nor fear thy Salem’s hills to wrong,
If other lands thy triumph share;
A heavenly city claims thy song,
A brighter Salem rises there.
5 By foreign streams no longer roam,
Nor, weeping, think of Jordan’s flood;
In every clime behold a home,
In every temple see thy God.
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First Line: | Why, on the bending willows hung |
Title: | Why, On The Bending Willows Hung |
Author: | James Joyce |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Christian Observer, December, 1809 (Original first line: "High on the bending willows hung") |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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Name: | CAIRO |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book by Lowell Mason, Edwards A. Park and Austin A. Phelps (New York: Mason Brothers, 1859) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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