Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition

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112 The Last Words of Copernicus

Words: Philip Doddridge, 1755

Music: Sarah Lancaster, 1870. Alto arr. S. M. Denson, 1911, from Minnie Floyd, 1902, and J. L. White, 1909

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

Ye golden lamps of heav’n, farewell,
With all your feeble light;
Farewell, thou ever-changing moon,
Pale empress of the night.
And thou refulgent orb of day,
In brighter flames arrayed:
My soul, which springs beyond thy sphere,
No more demands thy aid.