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 THE REVISED ORATORIO.

��development of the whole phrase, as I intended it. Now, could you not say 'call His name,' instead of 'call upon His name? ' Then the chief difficulty would be removed. And perhaps would it be possible to leave out * of the sun,' and only say our German Bible)? Then the second passage would also stand nearly as with the German words : —
 * from the rising ' (this is done very often, at least in

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��His Name.

��** The rest of the Andante con nioto suits my music now very well in the alteration, as you wrote it out, but I should prefer there the first, and in the begin- ning {Andante sostenuto) the second version. And why not? So the Andante con moto might begin: ' But the Lord hath upraised one, the Lord,' etc. But if this is against your conscience, leave here also the second version. For the beginning is much more important.


 * ' I prefer :

��He shall call

��up - on His Name, &c.

��" In No. 38 I should prefer : ' his words appeared like burning torches ' — I am so obstinate about the torches because they account for the F minor character ( 103 ) H

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