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Text:Christ is the world's true light
Author:George Wallace Briggs (1875-1959)
Tune:NUN DANKET
Harmonizer (basis):Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

610. Christ is the world's true light

Text Information
First Line: Christ is the world's true light
Author: George Wallace Briggs (1875-1959)
Meter: 67 67 66 66
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Transfiguration; Justice and Peace; Church: Universal (10 more...)
Copyright: From Songs of Praise, enlarged edition, 1931, Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Tune Information
Name: NUN DANKET
Harmonizer (basis): Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Meter: 67 67 66 66
Key: E♭ Major
Source: Melody in Johann Crüger Praxis Pietatis Melica, 1647 harmony chiefly from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Lobgesang, 1840



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