Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition

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433 McKay

Words: Samuel Stennett, 1787

Music: S. M. Denson, 1908

Meter: Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)

Oh, the transporting, rapturous scene
That rises to my sight!
Sweet fields arrayed in living green,
And rivers of delight.
There gen’rous fruits that never fail
On trees immortal grow,
There rocks and hills and brooks and vales
With milk and honey flow.