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The Southern harmony, and musical companion

containing a choice collection of tunes, hymns, psalms, odes, and anthems

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PART I. CONTAINING MOST OF THE PLAIN AND EASY TUNES COMMONLY USED IN TIME OF DIVINE WORSHIP.
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PART II. CONTAINING SOME OF THE MORE LENGTHY AND ELEGANT PIECES, COMMONLY USED AT CONCERTS, OR SINGING SOCIETIES.
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APPENDIX: CONTAINING SEVERAL TUNES ENTIRELY NEW.
  
[Hark! my soul, it is the Lord]
  
[When I can read my title clear to mansions in the skies]
  
['Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints]
  
[What wondrous love is this, oh! my soul! oh! my soul]
  
[On Jordan's stormy banks I stand]
  
[Since man by sin has lost his God]
  
[See how the wicked kingdom]
  
[I came to the place where the lone pilgrim lay]
  
[Thou art gone to the grave—but we will not deplore thee]
  
[Our bondage it shall end, by and by, by and by]
  
[In the floods of tribulation]
  
[Columbia! Columbia! to glory arise]
  
[Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound]
  
[Today, if you will hear his voice]
  
[Sometimes a light surprises]
  
[High o'er the hills the mountains rise]
  
[Where are the Hebrew children]
  
[If God is mine, then present things]
  
[Let party names no more]
  
[In evil long I took delight]
  
[Let me go to my home in the far distant west]
  
[The glorious light of Zion Is spreading all around]
  
[Let ev'ry mortal car attend]
  
[I love the volume of thy word]
  
[My God, my life, my love]
  
[How beauteous are their feet]
  
[Father, Son, and Holy Ghost]
  
[Rock of Ages, shelter me]
  
[My God, my portion, and my love]
  
[Why do we mourn departing friends]
  
[How precious, Lord, thy sacred word]
  
[Ye nations of the earth, rejoice]
  
[On the mountain's top appearing]
  
[There is a land of pure delight]
  
[Ye trembling captives hear]
  
[Come, sound his name abroad]
  
[To God our voices let us raise]
  
[And am I born to die]
  
[Joy to the world, the Lord is come]
  
[How pleased and blest was I]
  
[How long, dear Jesus, oh! how long]
  
[Shall wisdom cry aloud]
  
[Give me the wings of faith, to rise]
  
[And must I be to judgment brought]
  
[How sweet the melting lay]
  
[My God, my life, my love]
  
[How pleasant, how divinely fair]
  
[Thus far the Lord has led me on]
  
[Life is the time to serve the Lord]
  
[Come ye who know the Lord indeed]
  
[Oh! thou, whose tender mercy hears]
  
[My dearest, lovely, native land]
  
['Tis by the faith of joys to come]
  
[Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear]
  
[Jesus, I my cross have taken]
  
[His hoary frost, his fleecy snow]
  
[When I can read my title clear to mansions in the skies]
  
[Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish]
  
[This life's a dream, an empty show]
  
[Let every creature join]
  
[How sweet to reflect on the joys that await me]
  
[All hail the power of Jesus' name]
  
[Oh! for a closer walk with God]
  
[Come, happy souls, approach your God]
  
[Hark! listen to the trumpeters]
  
[Jerusalem, my happy home]
  
[Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched]
  
[What's this that in my soul is rising?]
  
[Shed not a tear o'er your friend's early bier]
  
[What's this that steals, that steals upon my frame]
  
[Hasten, Lord, the glorious time]
  
[When converts first begin to sing]
  
[How sweet to reflect on those joys that await me]
  
[Hail the blest morn! see the great Mediator]
  
[Precious Bible, what a treasure]
  
[People of the living God]
  
[How condescending and how kind]
  
[Jesus, my all, to heav'n is gone]
  
[Farewell! vain world, I'm going home]
  
[Jesus died on Calvary's mountain]
  
[I've listed in the holy war]
  
[Christian, see the orient morning]
  
[Joy to the world, the Lord is come]
  
[While, with ceaseless course, the sun]
  
[On Jordan's stormy banks I stand]
  
[There is a world we have not seen]
  
[Behold! behold the Lamb of God]
  
[Ye objects of sense]
  
[His voice as the sound of the dulcimer sweet]
  
[We have our trials here below]
  
[Alas! and did my Saviour bleed]
  
[The Lord is ris'n indeed]
  
[Far from mortal cares retreating]
  
[Jesus, my all, to heav'n is gone]
  
[Come, thou fount of ev'ry blessing]
  
[Yes, my native land, I love thee]
  
[Thou art passing away, thou art passing away]
  
[Father, who in the olive shade]
  
[Lord of the worlds above]
  
[Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish]
  
[When all thy mercies]
  
[Why should I be affrighted]
  
[Come away to the skies]
  
[Eternity draws nigh]
  
[Farewell, my dear brethren, the time is at hand]

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[See how the wicked kingdom]

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The following poem is scored for music in the source text.

1

See how the wicked kingdom
Is falling ev'ry day!
And still our blessed Jesus
Is winning souls away:
But O how I am tempted,
No mortal tongue can tell!
So often I'm surrounded
With enemies from hell.

2

With weeping and with praying,
My Jesus I have found,
To crucify old nature,
And make his grace abound.
Dear children, don't be weary,
But march on in the way;
For Jesus will stand by you,
And be your guard and stay.

3

If sinners will serve Satan,
And join with one accord,
Dear brethren, as for my part,
I'm bound to serve the Lord;
And if you will go with me,
Pray give to me your hand,
And we'll march on together,
Unto the promised land.

4

Through troubles and distresses,
We'll make our way to God;
Though earth and hell oppose us,
We'll keep the heavenly road.
Our Jesus went before us,
And many sorrows bore,
And we who follow after,
Can never meet with more.

5

Thou dear to me, my brethren,
Each one of you I find.
My duty now compels me
To leave you all behind:
But while the parting grieves us,
I humbly ask your prayers,
To bear me up in trouble,
And conquer all my fears.

6

And now, my loving brothers,
I bid you all farewell!
With you my loving sisters,
I can no longer dwell.
Farewell to every mourner!
I hope the Lord you'll find,
To ease you of your burden,
And give you peace of mind

7

Farewell, poor careless sinners!
I love you dearly well;
I've labour'd much to bring you
With Jesus Christ to dwell,
I now am bound to leave you—
O tell me, will you go?
But if you won't decide it,
I'll bid you all adieu!

8

We'll bid farewell to sorrow,
To sickness, care, and pain,
And mount aloft with Jesus
For evermore to reign;
We'll join to sing his praises
Above the ethereal blue,
And then, poor careless sinners
What will become of you?
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