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PG-P.768.037
8 Sep 1768:31 (2072)
Messeurs Hall and Sellers, Please to insert the following
hymn in your Gazette, and you will oblige many of your
readers. It was lately composed by a young man, Clerk of
the Church, and sung by the congregation in London,
immediately after their minister had purchased his farewel .
. . [OK:MJC] sermon, in order to embark for America;
1. To-day we meet to take our leave,
Of him by Jesus sent,
He takes away whom late he gave,
And we will be content.
2. Go then, dear shepherd, God obey,
The Lamb goes out before:
We for thy prosp'rous journey pray,
Go and remain in pow'r.
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