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Hark, the angels bright are singing

Author: Mary F. Cusack Appears in 4 hymnals

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Elliot Button Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 56183 22143 2176 Used With Text: Hark! The Angels Bright Are Singing

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Hark! The Angels Bright Are Singing

Author: Mary F. Cusack Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #10237 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Refrain First Line: Alleluia! Alleluia! This is what the angels say Lyrics: 1 Hark! the angels bright are singing In the glorious Easter sky: Jesus from the grave has risen, Jesus now no more may die. Refrain: Alleluia! Alleluia! This is what the angels say; Alleluia! Alleluia! We will sing with them today. 2 Pilate’s soldiers tried to keep Jesus fast within the grave; And they put a seal and stone Upon the entrance to the cave. [Refrain] 3 But when three days passed away, At the awful midnight hour, Jesus rose all gloriously By His own almighty power. [Refrain] 4 We must die as Jesus died, But we, too, from death shall rise; Then with Him, if we are good, We shall reign beyond the skies. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: REVA FALLS

Alleluia! alleluia! This is what the angels say

Author: Mary F. Cusack Hymnal: The School Hymnal #81 (1899) First Line: Hark! the angels bright are singing Languages: English Tune Title: [Hark! the angels bright are singing]

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Author: Mary F. Cusack Hymnal: Carols Old and Carols New #521 (1916) First Line: Hark! the angels bright are singing Topics: Easter Languages: English Tune Title: [Hark! the angels bright are singing]

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H. Elliot Button

1861 - 1961 Person Name: Henry Elliot Button Composer of "REVA FALLS" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: August 8, 1861, Clevedon, Somerset, England. Died: Circa August 1925, Hampstead, England. Button’s father was master of a private school, and excelled as an organist. Elliot was a self taught musician, and besides being solo alto at Holy Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea, was a pianist, organist, and violinist. He was also at one time was an editor for the Novello publishing company. He harmonized a number of tunes in The Primitive Methodist Hymnal Supplement with Tunes (London: Primitive Methodist Publishing House, 1912), and edited the third series of the Bristol Tune Book. Sources: Cowan, p. 201 © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Mary Francis Cusack

1832 - 1899 Person Name: Mary F. Cusack Author of "Hark! The Angels Bright Are Singing" in The Cyber Hymnal [Cusack, Mary Francis., also known as Sister Mary Francis Clare, Religious of the Order of Poor Clares, Margaret Anna Cusack, C. F. Cusack, M. F. Cusack] Sister Mary F. Clare, of Kenmare, has written several hymns of merit, including:— 1. Before the throne of God above. Angels. 2. Hark, the angels bright are singing. Easter. 3. Jesus was once a little child. Jesus the Holy Example. Of these Nos. 1, 3 are in Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881, and No. 2 in W. G. Horder's Hymn Lover, 1889. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================= Clare, Mary F., p. 1556, ii. In the Standard of June 7, 1899, is the following: "June 5, at Leamington, Margaret Anna Cusack, only daughter of the late Samuel Cusack, M.D., of Dublin, aged 70." In the same paper on the following day, this lady is identified as "Sister Mary F. Clare," the Nun of Kenmare, who, on leaving the Roman Catholic Church, lectured extensively on Protestantism. The hymns noted on p. 1556, ii., are from her Hymns for Children by a Religious of the Holy Order of the Poor Clares, London, 1862. Two others in 1862 have passed into the Congregational Book of Praise for Children, 1881, "O gentle Jesus, had I been" (Christ blessing Children), and “When Jesus was on earth He used" (Jesus, the Healer). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)