The Babylonian Captivity

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Along the banks where Babel's current flows

Author: Joel Barlow
Tune: BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY
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Along the banks where Babel's current flows,
Our captive bands in deep despondence strayed,
While Zion's fall in sad remembrance rose,
Her friends, her children, mingled with the dead.

Source: The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) #164

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Author: Joel Barlow

Barlow, Joel, born at Reading, Connecticut, 1755 [sic], graduated at Yale 1778, and died near Cracow, Poland, 1812, He was well known as an author and politician during and after the American Revolution. His publications include Hasty Pudding; Columbia, &c. In 1785, at the request of the (Congregational) General Association of Connecticut, he corrected and enlarged Dr. Watts's Psalms, supplying those omitted by Watts, and adapting the whole to American thought and circumstances. This work, published in 1786, went through various editions, and, although officially superseded by Dwight in 1800, it continued to be issued for many years after. Its title is somewhat curious as setting forth its design. It reads:— Psalms carefully suited to the… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Along the banks where Babel's current flows
Title:	The Babylonian Captivity
Author:	Joel Barlow
Meter:	10.10.10.10
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain