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OCEAN.

P.

M<

Psa.

108-22.

Key

of

F

Major.

TIMOTHY

SWAN,

1798.

Thy

works

of

glory,

mighty

Lord,That

rul'

st

the

boist'rous

sea;

Who

tempt

the

dang'rous

way.

The

sons

of

courage

shall

record,

At

thy

command

the

winds

arise,

And

Thy

works

of

glory,

mighty

Lord,That

rul'st

the

boist'rous

sea;

The

sons

Who

tempt

the

dang'rous

way.

At

thy

command

the

of

courage

shall

record,

At

thy

command

the

winds

arise,

And

At

thy

command

the

winds

arise,

And

swell

the

tow'ring

waves;

The

men

astonished

mount

the

skies,

And

sink

in

gap

-

Ing

graves.

swell

the

tow'ring

waves,

winds

arise

and

swell

the

tow'ring

waves;

The

men

astonished

mount

the

skies,

And

sink

in

gap

.

ing

graves.

swell

the

tow

ring

waves;

The

tune

"Ocean"

was

composed

by

Timothy

Swan

in

1793,

and

published

in

that

year

in

the

"New

England

Harmony"

by

Timothy

Swan.

He

was

born

1760

at

Sheffield,

Conn.

See

other

remarks

about

him

in

different

sketches

in

this

book.

Tune

has

appeared

in

different

books.

See

"

Missouri

Harmony,"

by

Walker,

1827

and

1837,

page

4;

John

Wyeth'e

"Repository

of

Sacred

Music,"

1810,

page

30,

as

well

as

a

large

number

of

other

books.

In

all

of

the

books

it

retains

the

same

words,

but

the

author

of

the

words

is

not

given

so

far

as

we

have

been

able

to

find.