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PRIMROSE.
C.
M.
"The
grace
of
God
bringeth
salvation."-TITUS
2
:
11
ISAAC
WATTS,
1709.
Key
of
A
Major.
AMZI
CHOPIN,
1805.
1.
Sal
-
va-tion,
O
the
joy
-
ful
sound,'Tis
pleas-ure
to
our
ears;
A
sov'reign
balm
for
ev
-
'ry
wound,
A
cor-dial
for
our
fears.
2.
Bur
-
ied
in
sor
-
row
and
in
sin,
At
hell's
dark
door
we
lay;
But
we
a
-
rise
by
grace
di
-
vine,
To
see
a
heav'n-ly
day.
3. Sal
-
va-tion! let
the
ech
-
o
fly
The
spac-ious
earth
a-round;
While
all
the
ar
-
mies
of
the
sky
Con-spire
to
raise
the
sound.
First
published
in
the
author's
"
Hymns
and
Spiritual
Songs,"
under
the
title
of
"
Salvation."
Walter
Shirley,
it
is
thought,
added
the
fourth
verse
to
this
hymn
in
1774.
It
appeared
in
Lady
Huntingdon's
"
Selections,"
of
which
he
was
at
the
time
editor.
This
hymn
is
said
also
to
be
approved
and
indorsed
by
the
leading
church
denominations
of
America.
See
"
National
Hymn
Book,"
page
14.
Lyrically
speaking,
it
is
correct,
and
has
literary
excellence,
fair
propriety,
reverence,
and
spiritual
reality.
Isaac
Watts
was
born
in
1674
and
died
in
1748.
He
was
a
minister
in
the
English
Congregationalist
Church.
This
tune
was
printed
in
the
"
Southern
Harmony,"
in
1835,
page
3,
by
William
Walker;
"
Missouri
Harmony,"
in
1837,
page
21,
as
well
as
in
many
other
earlier
books,
Amzi
Chopin
was
born
in
1768.
He
composed
a
great
deal
of
sacred
music,
and
was
a
splendid
musician.
copyright,
1908,
by
J.
S.
James.
IDUMEA.
C.
M.
"
A
time
to
be
born
and
a
time
to
die."-ECCL.
3
:
2.
CHARLES
WESLEY,
1753.
Key
of
A
Minor.
A.
DAVIDSON,
1817.
1.
And
am
I
born
to
die?
To
lay
this
bod
-
y
down!
And
must
my
trem
-
bling
spir
-
it
fly
In
-
to
a
world
un-known?
2. A land
of
deep
-
est
shade,
Un-pierced
by
hu
-
man
thought;
The
drear
-
y
re
-
gions
of
the
dead,
Where
all
things
are
for
-
got!
3. Soon
as
from
earth
I
go,
What
will
be
-
come
of
me?
E
-
ter
-
nal
hap
-
pi
-
ness
or
woe
Must
then
my
por-
tion
be!
4.
Waked
by
the
trum-pet
sound,
I
from
my
grave
shall
rise;
And
see
the
Judge
with
glo
-
ry
crowned,
And
see
the
flam-ing
skies!
The
original
title
to
these
words
was
"
And
Others
of
Riper
Years."
See
history
of
Charles
Wesley
on
this
and
other
pages
of
this
work.
He
composed
over
6,000
hymns,
and
this
one
was
among
his
favorites.
"
Idumea
"
was
printed
in
Walker's
"Southern
Harmony,"
in
1835,
page
31;
"Missouri
Harmony,"
in
1837,
page
32.
It
was
first
published
in
1817.
No
trace
can
be
found
of
A.
Davidson,
author
of
the
music.