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CHINA.
C.
M.
"
And
she
went
and
told
them
that
had
been
with
him,
as
they
mourned
and
wept."-MARK
16:
10.
ISAAC
WATTS,
1707.
Key
of
D
Major.
TIMOTHY
SWANN,
about
1790.
1.
Why
do
we
mourn
de-part
-
ing
friends,
Or
shake
at
death's
a
-
larms?
'Tis
but
the
voice
that
Je
-
sus
sends,
To
call
them
to
his
arms.
2.
Why
should
we
trem-ble
to
con-vey
Their
bod
-
ies
to
the
tomb?
There
the
dear
flesh
of
Je
-
sus
lay,
And
scat
-
tered
all
the
gloom.
3.
Thence
He
a
-
rose,
as
- cend
-
ing
high,
And
showed
our
feet
the
way;
Up
to
the
Lord
we
too
shall
fly
At
the
great
ris
-
ing
day.
Timothy
Swann
was
born
1758
in
Worcester,
Mass.,
died
in
Sheffield,
Conn.,
1842.
He
was
self-taught
in
music,
only
having
attended
a
course
of
studies
for
three
weeks
in
a
country
singing
school
at
Groton.
When
he
was
sixteen
years
of
age
he
moved
to
Northfield,
Mass.
He
was
a
hatter
by
trade,
and
while
engaged
in
this
business,
studied
music
for
over
thirty
years.
He
wrote
and
taught
music
in
New
England.
Many
of
his
tunes
were
published
and
had
wide
circulation.
He
was
a
genius
in
his
way.
His
tunes
were
remarkable
for
their
originality,
and
singularly
unlike
any
other
melodies.
"
China
"
is
one
of
his
master-pieces,
and
illustrates
his
self-culture
in
the
art
of
song.
It
is
printed
in
song
books
of
Law,
Mason,
Billings,
Swann,
Holden.
In
the
"
Missouri
Har-
mony,"
1837,
"Southern
Harmony,"
1835,
and
all
along
from
1807
up
to
the
present,
and
was
also
printed
in
the
"
Sacred
Harp,"
in
1844,
by
White
and
King.
The
only
song
book
he
ever
published
was
"
The
New
England
Harmony,"
104
pages.
LIVERPOOL.
C.
M.
Key
of
F
Major,
"Remember
now
thy
Creator
in
the
days
of
thy
youth."-ECCL.
12:
1.
M.
C.
H.
DAVIS.
1 2
1.
Young
peo-ple
all,
at
-
ten
-
tion
give,
And
hear
what
I
shall
say;
I
wish
your
souls
with
Christ
to
live
In
ev
-
er-last
-
ing
day.
day.
1 2
2.
Re-mem-ber
you
are
hast-'ning
on
To
death's
dark,
gloom-y
shade;
Your
joys
on
earth
will
soon
be
gone,
Your
flesh
in
dust
be
laid.
laid.
1 2
The
above
hymn
was
found
in
"
Mercer's
Cluster,"
page
146,
headed
"Solemn
Addresses
to
Young
People."
This
is
the
third
revised
edition
of
said
book.
Rev.
Jesse
Mercer
of
Powellton,
Ga.,
was
the
editor
in
1823,
The
hymn
has
appeared
in
several
hymn
books,
but
none
of
them
give
the
author's
name
or
date
of
the
hymn.
It
is
probably
an
English
production.
"
Liverpool,"
is
credited
to
M.
C.
H.
Davis.
It
appears
in
the
"
Sacred
Harp,"
by
White
and
King,
in
1844,
and
later
editions;
"Southern
Harmony,"
1837,
page
1,
with
all
the
verses
in
the
hymn;
and
in
the
"
Christian
Harmony,"
by
Walker,
in
1866,
page
583.
It
also
has
been
printed
in
a
great
number
of
later
books.