Hymns of Truth and Light ‎#258

258. Morning Has Broken

Text Information

• First Line: Morning has broken
• Title: Morning Has Broken
• Author: Eleanor Farjeon (1931)
• Meter: 55.54D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1998
• Source: Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931
• Copyright: © 1957 Harold Ober Associates, Inc., (in conjunction with David Higham Associates, Ltd.)
• ONE LICENSE: 118118

Tune Information

• Name: BUNESSAN
• Harmonizer: David Evans (1927)
• Meter: 55.54D
• Key: C Major
• Source: Traditional Gaelic melody; Harm. Revised Church Hymnary, 1927
• Copyright: Harm. © 1927 by permission of Oxford University Press

Text Information:

Eleanor Farjeon, English Catholic author and poet, wrote this hymn at the request of Percy Dearmer, editor of the 1931 hymnbook Enlarged Songs of Praise