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Thread #133748   Message #3037544
Posted By: GUEST,Tim
21-Nov-10 - 03:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: At Jacob's Well (a Stranger Sought)
Subject: RE: Origins: At Jacob's Well (a Stranger Sought)
Thanks for the Village Hymns info.


http://books.google.com/books?id=Gh03AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q&f=false

HYMN 80. C. M.

Newmark. Barby.

1 At Jacob's well a stranger sought
His drooping frame to cheer :
Samaria's daughter little thought
That Jacob's God was near.

2 This had she known, her fainting mind
For richer draughts had sigh'd ;
Nor had Messiah, ever kind.
Those richer draughts deny'd.

3 The man, who came on earth to die,
How few appear to know !
The friend of sinners, passing by,
Is still esteem'd a foe.

4 The sinner must the stranger know,
Or soon his loss deplore ;
Behold ! the living waters flow ;
Come— drink, and thirst no more.

Knaresborough (? in a more original, less fuguing form than the Union Tune Book version) is number 45 in the 1823 Bridgewater Collection of Sacred Music at

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L-gaAAAAYAAJ&dq=Collection%20Sacred%20Music&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false