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O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring
Appears in 11 hymnals
O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring
[O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Hall Incipit: 55331 55611 66511 Used With Text: The Merry Spring
[O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring]
The Merry Spring
Hymnal: Crowning Day No. 4 #218 (1900) First Line: O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring Refrain First Line: Merry, merry little spring Lyrics: 1 O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring,
By the rocks where the moss doth grow;
There is health in the tide, and there’s music beside,
In the brooklet’s bounding flow.
Refrain:
Merry, merry little spring,
Sparkle on, sparkle on;
Merry, merry little spring,
Sparkle on for me.
Ripple, ripple, silv’ry brook,
Ripple on, ripple on;
Ripple, ripple, silv’ry brook,
Ripple on for me.
2 And as pure as heaven is the water given,
And its stream is forever new;
‘Tis distilled in the sky, and it drops from on high
In the show’rs and gentle dew. [Refrain]
3 Let them say ‘tis weak, but its strength I’ll seek,
And rejoice while I own its sway;
For it murmurs to me in the echo of glee,
And laughs as it bounds away. [Refrain]
4 O I love to drink from the foaming brink
Of the bubbling, the cooling spring;
For the bright drops that shine more refreshing than wine,
And its praise, its praise we’ll sing. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring]
The Merry Spring
The Merry Spring
Hymnal: Temperance Day Number 6 #35 (1910) First Line: O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring Refrain First Line: Merry, merry little spring Topics: Temperance Languages: English Tune Title: [O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring]
The Merry Spring
O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring
Hymnal: Temperance Chimes #25 (1867)
O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring
J. H. Hall
1855 - 1941 Composer of "[O, a goodly thing is the cooling spring]" in Crowning Day No. 4 Jacob Henry Hall, 1855-1941
Born: January 2, 1855, near Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Died: December 22, 1941.
Buried: Dayton, Virginia.
Son of farmer George G. Hall and Elizabeth Thomas Hall, Jacob attended singing schools taught by Timothy Funk when he was a boy. As his love of music progressed, he earned money by trapping quail and bought a German accordion; he soon learned to play one part while singing another. After he and his brother jointly purchased an organ, he taught himself to play hymn tunes, Gospel songs, and anthems. He went on to study music theory, harmony, and composition in Harrisonburg and elsewhere, and in 1877 attended a Normal Music School in New Market, Virginia, taught by Benjamin Unseld and P. J. Merges. Afterward, he partnered with H. T. Wartman for two years to conduct singing schools and conventions. In 1890, Hall attended Dana’s Musical Institute in Warren, Ohio, and a normal school run by George & F. W. Root at Silver Lake, New York. He later served as principal of the National Normal School of Music.
Hall’s works include:
Hall’s Songs of Home, 1885
The Star of Bethlehem (Dayton, Virginia: Ruebush-Kieffer Company)
Musical Million (assistant editor)
Spirit of Praise, with William Kirkpatrick & Charles Case (Dayton, Virginia: The Ruebush-Kieffer Company, 1911)
Hall’s Quartettes for Men, 1912
Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers/em> (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1914)
Sources--
Hall, pp. 329-34
Lyrics--
Glorious Morning Dawns, The
O Thou Whose Matchless Power Controls
--hymntime.com/tch
J. H. Hall
