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SWEET
RIVERS.
C.
M.
"
And
he
shewed
me
a
pure
river
of
water
of
life,
clear
as
crystal,
proceeding
out
of
the
throne
of
God
and
of
the
Lamb."-REV.
22:
1.
Key
of
F
Major.
J.
W.
MOORE.
1.
{
Sweet
ri
-
vers
of
re
-
deem
-
ing
love
Lie
just
be
-
fore
mine
eye,
Had
I
the
pin
-
ions
of
a
dove
I'd
to
those
ri
-
vers
fly;
}
I'd
rise
su
-
pe
-
rior
to
my
pain,
2.
{A
few
more
days,
or
years
at
most,
My
trou-bles
will
be
o'er;
I
hope
to
join
the heav'n - ly
host
On
Ca-naan's
hap
-
py
shore.}
My
rap-tured
soul
shall
drink
and
feast
With
joy
out
-
strip
the
wind,
I'd
cross
o'er
Jor
-
dan's
storm
-
y
waves,
And
leave
the
world
be
-
hind.
-
hind.
In
love's
un
-
bound - ed
sea:
The
glo
-
rious
hope
of
end
-
less
rest
Is
rav - ish
-
ing
for
me.
me.
This
tune
appears
in
"
Southern
Harmony,"
by
Walker,
1835,
page
166.
It
is
credited
by
William
Walker
to-
Moore.
It
is
taken
from
"
Baptist
Har-
mony,
page
468.
It
is
highly
probable
that
the
tune
was
composed
by
J.
W.
Moore,
of
Vermont.
He
published
an
"
Encyclopedia
of
Music,"
in
1854,
and
added
an
edition
of
the
same
in
1876.