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Text:Come down, O Love divine
Author:Bianco da Siena
Translator:Richard F. Littledale
Tune:DOWN AMPNEY
Composer:Ralph Vaughan Williams

501. Come down, O Love divine

Text Information
First Line: Come down, O Love divine
Title: Come down, O Love divine
Author: Bianco da Siena (ca. 1367)
Translator: Richard F. Littledale
Language: English
Publication Date: 1992
Source: Laudi Spirituali del Bianco da Siena, 1851; People's Hymnal, 1867, alt.
Tune Information
Name: DOWN AMPNEY
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Meter: 66 11. 66 11
Key: D Major
Source: The English Hymnal, 1906
Copyright: Copyright © Oxford University Press, London



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