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48. How decent and how wise!

Text Information
First Line: How decent and how wise!
Language: English
Publication Date: 1938
Source: From Asahel Benham's Social Harmony, (Conn.) 1799 Full text from J. Goddard's Coll. of Sacred Hymns, Mass., 1809. (Phillips Barry's Collection)
Tune Information
Name: CANAAN
Arranger: Annabel Morris Buchanan
Incipit: 31235 65671 5
Key: G Major
Source: Early American hymn



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