[music notation]
member me when de year rolls round, O, Lord, remember me.
The words of the chant are evidently a very childlike expression of the
wish to die with the same good will and spirit of forgiveness which were
manifested in the Saviour's death.
Of a very different character is the following verse, sung to the same
recitative:
'O, Death he is a little man,
He goes from do' to do',
He kill some soul, an he wounded some,
An' he lef' some soul for to pray.'
A most striking contrast between the recitative and chorus, is presented
in the following:
RECITATIVE (_Sung to one note like a chant, with a cadence at the
end_):--
'I wonder why Satan do follow me so?
Satan hab noting 't all for to do, long 'wid me.'