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Exalted Hope C.M.

By David Wright

Key
B♭ major
Type
Fuging tune
Time signature
4
4
Composed
2011
Text
Isaac Watts, 1719

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Description

Published in The Shenandoah Harmony (2013), p. 107, and in The Trumpet (volume 1, number 2). Thanks to Robert Stoddard for assistance with LilyPond.


Text

Blest are the souls that hear and know
The Gospel's joyful sound;
Peace shall attend where'er they go,
And light their steps surround.

Their joy shall bear their spirits up
Through their Redeemer's name;
His righteousness exalts their hope,
Nor Satan dares condemn.