Hymns of Truth and Light ‎#99

99. Can You Count the Stars

Text Information

• First Line: Can you count the stars that brightly twinkle
• Title: Can You Count the Stars
• Author: Johann Wilhelm Hey (1837)
• Translator: Percy Dearmer (adapt.)
• Meter: 87.87.88.77
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1998
• Scripture:
  Psalm 147:4
• Topic: God: Assurance and Comfort; God: Creator; God: Providence and Care
• Source: Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931, alt. by permission
• Copyright: Tr. adapt. © 1931 by permission of Oxford University Press

Tune Information

• Name: TWINKLING STARS
• Meter: 87.87.88.77
• Key: D Major
• Source: Traditional German melody; Harm. FCC, 1997
• Copyright: Harm. © 1998 FCC Houston TX

Text Information:

Hey, court preacher at Gotha, wrote numerous poems for children. Songs of Praise (1925) and its enlarged edition (1931) were edited by the combined talents of Percy Dearmer, Martin Shaw and Ralph Vaughan Williams