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Text: | Because I Knew Not When My Life Was Good |
Author: | Sarah Williams |
Tune: | PEACE |
Composer: | George Whitefield Chadwick |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Because I knew not when my life was good,
And when there was a light upon my path,
But turned my soul perversely to the dark,
O Lord, I do repent.
2. Because I held upon my selfish road,
And left my brother wounded by the way,
And called ambition duty, and pressed on,
O Lord, I do repent.
3. Because I spent the strength Thou gavest me
In struggle which Thou never didst ordain,
And have imperfect life to offer Thee,
O Lord, I do repent.
4. Because I was impatient, would not wait,
And thrust my willful hand across Thy threads,
And marred the pattern drawn out for my life,
O Lord, I do repent.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Because I knew not when my life was good |
Title: | Because I Knew Not When My Life Was Good |
Author: | Sarah Williams |
Meter: | 10.10.10.6 |
Language: | English |
Source: | Twilight Hours, 1868, alt. |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PEACE |
Composer: | George Whitefield Chadwick (1890) |
Meter: | 10.10.10.6 |
Incipit: | 55511 71232 13334 |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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