A47611:2005
Spiritual melody
Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark
London: printed for John Hancock, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1 Now even will I sing a Song To my Beloved dear, A Song of his own Vineyard 'tis Which he hath planted here.
1 NOw even will I sing a Song To my Beloved dear, A Song of his own Vineyard 'tis Which he hath planted here.
2 My Beloved he a Vineyard hath In a most fruitful Hill, And he also fenced it about With care and greatest skill:
2 My Beloved he a Vineyard hath In a most fruitful Hill, And he also fenc'd it about With care and greatest skill:
3 He planted it with the choice Vine, And built a Tower too, Where he doth dwell, who is divine, This doth its glory show.
4 A Wine Press too he made therein, Which Wine pours forth amain, Of which he doth delight to drink, Due glory to obtain.