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FEDERAL
STREET.
L.
M.
Let
thy
will
be
done.
Mat
10-9.
Isaac
Watts.
1707.
Key
of
A.
Flat.
H.
K.
Oliver.
1800.
1. My
dear
Re-deem-er
and
my
Lord,
I
read
my
du
-
ty
in
thy
word;
But
in
thy
life
the
law
ap
-
pears,
Drawn
out
in
living
char-ac-ters.
2.
Such
was
thy
truth,aud
such
thy
zeal,
Such
def'rence
to
thy
father's
will,
Such
love,
and
meekness
so
di
-
vine,-I
would
transcribe
and
make
them
mine
3.
Cold
mountains
and
he
midnight
air
Witness'd
the
fer-ver
of
thy
pray'r;
The
des-ert
thy
temp-ta
-
tions
knew,
Thy
con-flict
and
thy
vic-t'ry
too.
4. Be
thou
my
pat
-
tern;
make
me
bear
More
of
thy
gra-cious
im
-
age
here;
Then
God,
the
judge,
shall
own
thy
name
A-mong
the
fol-'wers
of
the
lamb.
The
above
tune
was
composed
by
H.
K.
Oliver
in
Salem,
Mass.
1800.
He
began
studying
music
in
childhood.
His
fathhr
com-
pelled
him
to
relinquish
it
as
a
profession
but
it
remained
his
favorite
avocation,
and
after
he
was
graduated
at
Harvard,
hav-
ing
taught
as
school
master,
and
at
one
time,
Treasurer
of
the
state
of
Mass.
His
first
piece
of
music
was
published
in
Lowell
Mason's
tune
book.
In
1833.
Federal
Street
was
sung
at
his
wife's
burial.
The
following
tunes
were
composed
by
him;
Harmony,
Grove,
Morning,
Walnut
Grove,
Hudson,
Bosworth,
Salesbury,
and
several
anthems
and
motets
and
Te,
Duem.
In
his
old
age
at
the
peace
jubilee
in
Boston
1872.
He
conducted
a
chorus
of
ten
thousand
as
they
sung
the
words
and
music
of
his
noble
harmony.
This
tune
Federal
Street
was
widely
advertised
and
became
quite
a
favorite
in
New
England.
Oliver
died
in
1885.
The
above
is
one
of
the
great
hymns
of
Isaac
Watts
the
celebrated
English
Hymnist.