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 THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION.

��" No. 6 [3] . The time is Andante iranquillo. The first words are from Jerem. xxix., 13. And the following from Job xxiii., 3, and I wish to keep these last literally : * Oh, that I knew {shirred) where I might find Him, that (added note, as you also have) I might c'ome even to His seat ' (or ' presence,' perhaps, if the two notes shall not be slurred.)* And before the first subject and the first words return, the notes may be altered thus : —

��� ��that I knew, where I might find Him. Ifwithall, &c.

��" In No. 7 [5], I prefer your first idea, ' for He is Lord and God,' to the two others which you propose ; and I wish you would have the ' He,' &c., inserted still in the choral parts.

" No. 8 [6], I prefer an alteration in the notes, and to keep the words : —

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and I have com-raand - ed the ra - vens to feed thee, &c.

��♦ Bartholomew originally had these words: "Ah! could I find Him ; and at His footstool bow before His presence."

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