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PHOEBUS.
C.
M.
D.
"Evening,
and
morning,
and
at
noon,
will
I
pray,
and
cry
aloud:
and
he
shall
hear
my
voic
"
Ps.
55:17
Isaac
.
Watts,
1719,
Key
of
F
Sharp
Minor.
Psalmist
8th
Hym
1. Lord,
in
the
morning
thou
shall
hear
My
voice
ascending
high:
To
thee
will
I
direct
my
prayer,
To
thee
lift
up
mine
eye;
Up
to
the
hills
where
Christ
is
gone To
2. Thou
art
a
God
before
whose
sight
The
wicked
shall
not
stand;
Sinners
shall
ne'er
be
thy
delight,
Nor
dwell
at
thy
right
hand,
But
to
thy
house
will
I
resort,
To
plead
for
all
his
saints,
Presenting
at
his
Father's
throne,
Pre
-
sent-ing
at
his
Father's
throne
Our
songs
and
our
complaints.
taste
thy
mercies
there;
Thy
word
in
-
to
our
minds
in-still;
Thy
word
in
-
to
our
minds
in
-
still;
And
wor
-
shp
in
thy
fear.
This
hymn
originallv
had
eight
stanzas,
and
the
title
was,
"For
The
Lord's
Day,
Morning."
It
represents
Dr.
Watts'
idea
of
the
Psalm
above,
and
it
is
referred
to
in
the
works
of
hymnology
as
one
of
the
standard
hymns
of
this
gifted,
fluent
writer.
He
was
born
in
1674
and
died
in
1748.
The
composer
of
the
melody
is
unknown.
This
tune
is
an
old
minor
melody.
It
was
in
the
first
edition
of
the
"Southern
Harmony"
and
in
the
first
edition
of
the
"Missouri
Har-
mony,"
but
none
of
them
give
the
author's
name.
The
words
were
taken
from
"Psalmist"
8th
Hymn.