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226. There in God’s Garden

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Text Information
First Line: There in God's garden stands the tree of Wisdom
Title: There in God’s Garden
Author: Pécselyi Király Imre (1641 c.)
Translator: Erik Routley (1974)
Meter: 11.11.11.5
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: Atonement; Christian Year: Palm Sunday; Christian Year: Maundy Thursday (6 more...)
Copyright: © 1976 Hinshaw Music, Inc.
Tune Information
Name: SHADES MOUNTAIN
Composer: K. Lee Scott (1976)
Meter: 11.11.11.5
Key: F Major
Copyright: © 1987 Birnamwood Publications (a div. of MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc.)


Text Information:

These evocative stanzas on Christ’s Passion come from a 12-stanza hymn by a 17th-century Hungarian pastor, as translated by the preeminent 20th-century hymnologist of the English-speaking world. The tune name honors the composer’s home in the foothills of the Appalachians.


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