Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#277

277. See, There Stands Among the Myrtles

Text Information

• First Line: See, there stands among the myrtles
• Title: See, There Stands Among the Myrtles
• Welsh Title: Wele’n sefyll rhwng y myrtwydd
• Author: Ann Griffiths
• Translator: Don Evans (2024)
• Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  Song of Solomon 2:3
• Topic: Ordinary Time: Week 17
• Copyright: Translation ©2024 Don Evans.
• Notes: Text by Welsh poet Ann Griffiths, “Wele’n sefyll rhwng y myrtwydd,” from Gwaith Ann Griffiths (1905), tr. by Don Evans, previously unpublished.

Tune Information

• Name: RHUDDLAN
• Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906)
• Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7
• Incipit: 11113 125
• Key: G Major or modal
• Notes: Welsh tune “Dowch i’r frwydr” (“Come to battle”), from Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, 2nd ed. (1794), adapt. and arr. as Rhuddlan by R. Vaughan Williams for The English Hymnal (1906).