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MASONIC
ODE.
"
And
she
gave
the
king
a
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold,."
2
Chro*
9-9.
Key
of
D
Major.
Treble
by
E.
J.
King,
1844.
Sac
-
cred
to
heav'-n
be
-
hold
the
dome
ap
-
pears:
Lo!
What
au
-
gust
solemn!
-
ty
t
wears;
An
-
gels
them-selves
have
deign'd
to
deck
the
frame,
And
Sac
-
cred
to
heav'-n
be
-
hold
the
dome
ap
-
pears;
Lo!
What
au
-
gust
solemni
-
ty
it
wears;
An
-
gels
them-selves
have
deign'd
to
deck
the
frame,
And
beau
-
te
-
ous
She-ba
shall
re
-
port
its
fame.
When
the
queen
of
the
south
shall
re-turn,
To
the
climes
which
acknowledge
her
beauteous
She-ba
shall
re
-
port
its
fame.
When
the
queen
of
the
south
shall
re
turn,
To
the
climes
which
acknowledge
her
This
ode
was
in
the
the
earliest
books
published
in
America,
and
it
is
believed
to
be
a
much
longer
standing
than
any
of
these
composers
of
this
country.
It
is
pub
lished
in
the
book
we
have
before
us
of
John
Wyeths
song
book
on
Repository
of
Sacred
Music,
1810
page
84,
and
no
doubt
in
many
other
song
books
of
perhaps
an
earlier
date
than
this,
It
has
been
in
the
Sacred
Harp
ever
since
that
book
was
compiled
by
B.
F.
White
and
E.
J.
King.
The
treble
was
composed
by
E.
J.
King
in
1844.
In
Wyeth's
book
it
is
stated
that
the
author
is
unknown.
It
has
the
same
words
in
the
Sacred
Harp
and
in
John
G.
McCurry's
Social
Harp,
page
222,
1855,
and
in
Wyeths
book
above
mentioned
on
two
parts
tenor
and
base
It
is
rather
a
difficult
strain
of
music
to
render,
especially
so
on
account
of
the
extreme
higeth
of
some
of
the
notes
in
the
tenor
and
treble.