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Text:O Strength and Stay upholding all creation
Author:St. Ambrose. 340-397
Translator:Rev. J. Ellerton
Translator:Rev. F. J. A. Hort
Tune:CHARTERHOUSE
Composer:David Evans

28a. O Strength and Stay upholding all creation

Text Information
First Line: O Strength and Stay upholding all creation
Latin Title: Rerum Deus tenax vigor
Translator: Rev. J. Ellerton (1870)
Translator: Rev. F. J. A. Hort (1870)
Author: St. Ambrose. 340-397
Meter: 11 10. 11 10.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1939
Topic: Evening
Notes: Alternative tunes, DONNE SECOURS, Nos. 142, 649 and WELWYN, No. 69.
Tune Information
Name: CHARTERHOUSE
Composer: David Evans (1927)
Meter: 11 10. 11 10.
Key: F Major
Copyright: Copyright, 1927, by David Evans.
Notes: Now Public Domain.



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