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SPRING.
Concluded.
Coos
tho
tur-tle
dove
a-lone,
Now
with
sweetly
pensive
moan
Coos...
the
tur-tle
dove
a
-
lone.
Coos
the
tur-tle
dove
a
-
lone,
Now
with
sweely
pen-sive
moan.
Coos,
the
tur
-
tle
dove
a
-
lone.
Coos
the
tur-tle
dove
a
-
lone.
Rise
my
soul
and
come
a
-
way.
Rise
my
soul
and
come
a
-
way.
Rise
my
sonl
and
come
a-way,
Gently
doth
he
chide
my
stay,
Rise...
my
soul
and
come
a-way.
Coos
the
tur
-
tle
dove
a
-
lone.
Coos
Rise,
my
soul
and
come
a
-
way.
Rise,
the
tur-tle
dove
a
-
lone,
my
soul
and
come
a
-
way.
MONTGOMERY.
C.
M.
Psalmist,
18th
Hymn.
"Remember
now
thy
Creator
in
the
days
of
thy
youth,
while
the
evil
days
come
not,
nor
the
years
draw
nigh,
when
thou
shalt
say,
I
have
no
pleasure
in
them."-ECC.
12:1.
Isaac
Watts,
1719.
Key
of
C
Major.
Rev.
David
Morgan,
about
1805.
Ear
- ly
my
God,
without
de
-
lay,
I
haste
to
seek
thy
face;
My
thirs-ty
spi
-
rit
faints
a
-
way...
With
Ear
-
ly
my
God,
without
de
-
lay,
I
haste
to
seek
thy
face;
My
thirs-ty
spi
-
rit
faints
a
-
way...
With
Ear
-
ly
my
God,
without
de
-
lay,
I
haste
to
seek
thy
face;
My
fhirs-ty
spi
-
rit
faints
a
-
way,
With
There
are
two
sources
laying
claim
to
this
tune.
One
is
that
of
"Moore;
"
the
other
by
David
Morgan,
a
Presbyterian
minister.
We
are
satisfied that
Morgan
is
the
author
of
the
tune.
It
was
applied
to
Dr.
Watts'
hymn,
"Early
My
God
Without
Delay,"
While
it
has
been
applied
to
other
tunes,
"Montgomery"
has
been
at-
tached
to
this
hymn
for
almost
one
hundred
years.
See
Missouri
Harmony,
1827
and
1837,
page
80;
Southern
Harmony,
by
Walker
1835
and
1848,page
170;
Repository
of
Sacred
Music,"
by
John
Wyeth,
page
43,
and
later
editions,
1910.
Morgan
was
a
noted
minister,
preaching
both
in
America
and
England.
The
most
powerful
revival
the
world
has
ever
witnessed
occurred
under
his
ministry
1857-8.
See
further
about
him
on
pages
391-2
Brown
&
Butterworth
's
"Story
of
Hymns
and
Tunes."
Also
obout
words
and
tune,
same
book,
page
35,