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The Fool Whose Heart Declares in Pride

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Author: Stephen Wilcockson

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Text Information

First Line: The fool whose heart declares in pride
Title: The Fool Whose Heart Declares in Pride
Author: Stephen Wilcockson
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
Language: English
Copyright: © Stephen Wilcockson (admin. by Praise Trust)

Tune

MARTYRDOM (Wilson)

MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b. Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, c. 1766; d. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. A triple-meter version of the tune was fir…

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