Anti-slavery Melodies: For the Friends of FreedomElijah B. Gill, 1843 - 96 páginas |
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Abolitionist Affection's Afric's Anti-Slavery Call Anti-Slavery Melodies Arouse Beneath bitter tears blood Blow ye bondage of ages Bondman Brittannia captive's chilly night claim the Freeman's CONTINUED Death or Freedom dust earth ev'ry Fa la Father fetters foes Freedom's Banner friendly call galling chain glory God's grave grief and bitter Hade Hail Hark hath hear heart heaven help the cause Heralds of Freedom HINGHAM hurra Hymn 16 Hymn 32 JAIRUS LINCOLN JOHN PIERPONT join &c joyful Jubilee L. M. WORDS la la la launched &c Liberty light Lord mean ye mercy MUSIC New-England's sons o'er offerings bring oppression oppression's peace Pilgrims are launched praise prayer reign riven shame shout sight is holy sing slavery curse slavery's song soul Spirit of Freedom sweet Freedom thee thou trance is awaking truth tyrant voice W. L. GARRISON WORDS BY W. L. ye the Trumpet
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Página 27 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Página 87 - What voice shall bid the progress stay Of truth's victorious car ? What arm arrest the growing day, Or quench the solar star ? What...
Página 50 - s the day, and now 's the hour ! Freedom is our nation's dower, Put we forth a nation's power, Struggling to be free ! Raise your front the foe to daunt ! Bide no more the snare, the taunt ! — Peal to highest heaven the chaunt, — "Law and Liberty!
Página 29 - ROLL on, thou joyful day, When tyranny's proud sway, Stern as the grave, Shall to the ground be hurl'd, And freedom's flag, unfurl'd, Shall wave throughout the world O'er every slave. 2. Trump of glad jubilee, Echo o'er land and sea, Freedom for all ; Let the glad tidings fly, And every tribe reply, Glory to God on high, At slavery's fall.
Página 13 - The Lord will come, a dreadful form, With wreath of flame and robe of storm, On cherub wings, and wings of wind, Anointed Judge of human kind.
Página 28 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song; Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong. Our father's God, to Thee, Author of liberty, To Thee we sing; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King...
Página 87 - The day has come, the hour draws nigh, We hear the coming car ; Send forth the glad, exulting cry, Hurra, hurra, hurra! From every hill, by every sea, In shouts proclaim the great decree, " All chains are burst, all men are free!
Página 32 - WITH thy pure dews and rains, Wash out, O God ! the stains From Afric's shore ; And while her palm trees bud, Let not her children's blood, With her broad Niger's flood, Be mingled more.
Página 17 - O THOU, whose presence went before Our fathers in their weary way, As with thy chosen moved of yore The fire by night — the cloud by day...
Página 90 - When at the driver's call, In cold or sultry weather, We slaves, both great and small, Turn out to toil together, I feel like one, From whom the sun Of hope has long departed; And morning's light, And weary night Still find me broken-hearted. Thus, when the chilly breath Of night is sighing round me, Kneel I, and wish that death In his cold chain had bound me.