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STAR
OF
COLUMBIA.
Concluded.
fruit-ful
thy
soil,
most
in
-
vi
-
ting
thy
clime;
Let
crimes
of
the
east
ne'er
en-crim-son
thy
name,
Be
free-
dom,
and
si
-
ence
and
vir-tue
thy
fame
larged
as
thy
em
-
pire,
and
just
as
thy
cause;
On
free-dom's
broad
ba-sis
that
em
-
pire
shall
rise;
Ex
-
tend
with
the
main
and
dis-solve
with
the
skies,
fly
from
all
na
-
tions,
the
best
or
man
-
kind;
There,
grateful
to
Heaven,
with
transport
shall
bring
Their
in-cense,
more
sa
-
cred
than
o
-
dours
of
spring.
EVENING.
7s,
Original.
"And
there
I
will
meet
with
thee,
and
I
will
commune
with
thee
from
above.-Ex.
25:22.
George
W.
Doane,
1824.
Key
of
C
Major.
Alto
by
S.
M.
Denson,
1911.
J.
L.
White,
1869,
Soft
-
1
y
now
the
light
of
day
Fades
up
-
on
our
sight
a
-
way;
Free
from
care,
from
la
-
borfree,
Lord,
we
would
commune
with
thee.
Thou
whose
all
per
-
va
-
ding
eye
Naught
escapes,
wih-out,
with
-
in;
Par-don
each
in
-
firm-i
-
ty,
O-pen
fault
and
se
-
cret
sin.
Soon
for
us
the
light
of
day
Shall
for
-
ev
-
er
pass
a
-
way:
Then
from
sin
and
sor-row
free,
Take
us,
Lord,
to
dwell
with
thee.
The
hymn
was
composed
by
Rev.
George
W.
Doane.
The
title
of
the
hymn
was
"Evening."
He
was
a
bishop
in
Protestant
Episcopal
Church,
New
Jersey;
born
1799;
died
at
Birmington,
N.
J.
1859.
He
was
a
man
of
great
power
and
energy
as
a
minister.
He
composed
several
hymns.
Further
about
his
history
can
be
seen
on
page
377
of
"Our
Hymns"
by
Tillet,
published
1889.
Prof,
J.
L.
White,
author
of
the
music,
is
a
son
of
B.
F.
White,
one
of
the
authors
of
Sacred
Harp,
1844.
J.
L.
White
resides
at
this
time,
1911,
in
Atlanta.
Ga.
He
composed
and
printed
in
connection
with
his
brother,
B.
F.
White,
"New
Sacred
Harp,"
in
1882,
seven-shape
notes.
He
has
made
in
connection
with
others
two
revisions
of
the
Sacred
Harp,
1909
and
1910.
This
tune
is
placed
on
this
page
for
the
reason
that
it
could
not
be
put
on
page
70,
where
it
originally
was,
on
account
of
the
lengah
of
the
history,
and
alto
added
by
S.
M.
Denson.