Scatters his feeble light;
’Tis thy sweet beams create my noon;
If thou withdraw, ’tis night.
The words are Watts’. The tune is given as by F(reeman) Lewis. Found also, GCM 63, SOC 238, WP 44, TZ 77, GOS 650, SKH 83, CM 120, Baptist Hymn and Tune Book (1857), p. 106, where it is called a ‘Western Melody’. It is practically the same as ‘Wife of Usher’s Well’, Sharp, i., 160, Q. See Introduction, [page 14], for mention of the ‘Lord Lovel’ type of tune to which ‘Dunlaps’ Creek’ belongs.
No. 80
[SINNER’S INVITATION], OL 211
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
Sinner go, will you go
To the highlands of heaven,
Where the storms never blow