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The Southern harmony, and musical companion

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

1.

PART I. CONTAINING MOST OF THE PLAIN AND EASY TUNES COMMONLY USED IN TIME OF DIVINE WORSHIP.

2.

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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[Hark! listen to the trumpeters]

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

1.

Hark! listen to the trumpeters!
They sound for volunteers!
On Zion's bright and flow'ry mount
Behold the officers—
Their horses white, their garments bright
With crown and bow they stand,
Enlisting soldiers for their King,
To march for Canaan's land.

2.

It sets my heart all in a flame;
A soldier I will be;
I will enlist, gird on my arms,
And fight for liberty.
They want no cowards in their band,
(They will their colours fly,)
But call for valiant-hearted men,
Who're not afraid to die.

3.

The armies now are in parade,
How martial they appear!
All arm'd and dress'd in uniform,
They look like men of war:
They follow their great General,
The great Eternal Lamb
His garments stain'd with his own blood,
King Jesus is his name.

4.

The trumpet sounds, the armies shout,
And drive the hosts of hell;
How dreadful is our God in arms!
The great Immanuel!—
Sinners, enlist with Jesus Christ
Th' eternal Son of God,
And march with us to Canaan's land,
Beyond the swelling flood.

5.

There is a green and flow'ry field,
Where fruits immortal grow;
There, clothed in white, the angels bright
Our great Redeemer know.
We'll shout and sing for evermore
In that eternal world;
But Satan and his armies too,
Shall down to hell be hurl'd.

6.

Hold up your heads, ye soldiers bold,
Redemption 's drawing nigh
We soon shall hear the trumpet sound
'T will shake both earth and sky;
In fiery chariots then we'll fly.
And leave the world on fire
And meet around the starry throne
To tune th' immortal lyre.