Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition

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112 The Last Words of Copernicus

Words: Philip Doddridge, 1755

Music: Sarah Lancaster, 1869

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.