A Litany

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Instrumental Only?
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Description

SATB and organ.  A setting of the famous "Drop, drop slow tears" text by Phineas Fletcher.  Slow and mournful.

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Lyrics

Drop, drop, slow tears,
and bathe those beauteous feet,

which brought from heaven
the news and Prince of Peace.


Cease not, wet eyes,
his mercies to entreat;

to cry for vengeance
sin doth never cease.


In your deep floods
drown all my faults and fears;

nor let his eye see sin,
but through my tears.