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GREENFIFLD.
8s.
"Whom
have
I
in
heaven
but
thee?
and
there
is
none
upon
earth
I
desire
beside
thee,"
Psa.
73:
25.
JOHN
NEWTON,
1779.
Key
of
G.
1. How
te
-
dious
and
taste-less
the
hours,
When
Je
-
sus
no
lon-ger
I
see!
Sweet
pros-pects,
sweet
birds
and
sweet
flow'rs,
Have
lost
all
their
sweetness
to
me;
The
mid
summer
sun
shines but
dim
The
2. His
name
yields
the
sweet-est
per-fume,
And
sweet-er
than
mu-sic
His
voice;
His
pres
-
ence
dis
-
pers
-
es
my
gloom,
And
makes
all
with-in
me
re
-
-
-
-
joice;
I
should,
were
he
al-ways
thus
high
Have
3.
Con
-
tent
with
be
-
hold
-
ing
His
face,
My
all
to
His
pleas-ures
re-signed,
No
chang
-
es
of
sea - son
or
place.
Would
make
any
change
in
my
-
-
-
mind,
While
bles'd
with
a
sence
of
His
love;
A
4. Dear
Lord,
if
in
-
deed
I
am
thine,
If
thou
art
my
sun
and
my
song,
Say,
why
do
I
lan-guish
and
pine,
And
why
are
my
win-ters
so
-
-
-
long?
Oh,
drive
these
dark
clouds
from
my
sky,
Thy
fields
strive
in
vain
to
look
gay;
But
when
I
am
hap
-
py
in
him,
De
-
cem
-
ber's
as
pleas
-
ant
as
May.
noth
-
ing
to
wish
or
to
fear;
No
mor - tal
as
hap
-
py
as
I,
My
sum - mer
would
last
all
the
year.
pal
-
ace
a
toy
would
ap
-
pear,
And
pris
-
ons
would
pal
-
ac
-
es
prove,
If
Je
-
sus
would
dwell
with
me
there.
sou
-
cheer-ing
pres
-
ence
re
-
store,
Or
take
me
to
thee
up
on
high,
Where
win
-
ter
and
clouds
are
no
more.
This
widely-popular
hymn,
on
"Delights
in
Christ,"
was
taken
from
"Olney
Hymns,"
in
1779.
John
Newton
was
one
of
the
best
English
hymn
writers.
Born
1725
and
died
1807;
belonged
to
the
Church
of
England.
Louis
Edson
was
born
1748
and
died
1820.
He
was
an
American,
and
wrote
some
very
valuable
music.
If
he
had
never
written
any
other
tune
but
"Green-
field,'
it
would
stand
as
a
monument
to
his
name
throughout all
ages.
Since
writing
the
above
sketch,
it
will
be
noticed
that
there
is
a
mistake
in
the
date
of
the
tune
Greenfield,
while
it
is
put
down
in
a
number
of
the
song
books
as
being
composed
in
1840,
as
it
is
at
the
head
of
this
page.
It
could
not
possibly
have
been
composed
at
that
date,
for
its
author
died
in
1820,
and
it
appears
in
several
books
before
the
close
of
the
18th
century.
The
earliest
book
that
we
have
examined,
except
the
published
historys,
is
John
Wyeth's
repository
of
"Sacred
Harp"
in
1810.
Certain
it
was
before
that
date.