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O blest Creator of light, Who makest day with radiance bright

Author: Percy Dearmer Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Text Sources: Latin, 8th century or earlier

LUCIS CREATOR

Appears in 6 hymnals Tune Key: b minor Incipit: 56554 61156 54555 Used With Text: O blest Creator of the light

Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Shaw, 1875-1958 Tune Sources: 17th century Angers Church Melody Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 11317 34573 43217 Used With Text: O blest Creator of the light

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O blest Creator of the light

Author: Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 Hymnal: The New English Hymnal #150a (1986) Lyrics: 1 O blest Creator of the light, Who makest day with radiance bright, And o’er the forming world didst call The light from chaos first of all; 2 Whose wisdom joined in meet array The morn and eve, and named them Day: Night comes with all its darkling fears; Regard thy people’s prayers and tears: 3 Lest, sunk in sin and whelm'd with strife, They lose the gift of endless life; While, thinking but the thoughts of time, They weave new chains of guilt and crime. 4 But grant them grace that they may strain The heavenly gate and prize to gain: Each harmful lure aside to cast, And purge away each error past. 5 O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son, Who with the Spirit and with thee Doth live and reign eternally. Amen. Topics: Office Hymn Sunday evening; The Christian Year From Trinity Sunday to Advent Languages: English Tune Title: LUCIS CREATOR

O blest Creator of the light

Author: Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 Hymnal: The New English Hymnal #150b (1986) Lyrics: 1 O blest Creator of the light, Who makest the day with radiance bright, And o’er the forming world didst call The light from chaos first of all; 2 Whose wisdom joined in meet array The morn and eve, and named them Day: Night comes with all its darkling fears; Regard thy people’s prayers and tears: 3 Lest, sunk in sin and whelm'd with strife, They lose the gift of endless life; While, thinking but the thoughts of time, They weave new chains of guilt and crime. 4 But grant them grace that they may strain The heavenly gate and prize to gain: Each harmful lure aside to cast, And purge away each error past. 5 O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son, Who with the Spirit and with thee Doth live and reign eternally. Amen. Topics: Office Hymn Sunday evening; The Christian Year From Trinity Sunday to Advent Tune Title: LUCIS CREATOR

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Percy Dearmer

1867 - 1936 Person Name: Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 Translator of "O blest Creator of the light" in The New English Hymnal Dearmer, Percy, M.A., son of Thomas Dearmer, was born in London, Feb. 27, 1867, and educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1890, M.A. 1896). He was ordained D. 1891, P. 1892, and has been since 1901 Vicar of S. Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, London. He has been Secretary of the London Branch of the Christian Social Union since 1891, and is the author of The Parson's Handbook, 1st edition, 1899, and other works. He was one of the compilers of the English Hymnal, 1906, acting as Secretary and Editor, and contributed to it ten translations (38, 95, 150, 160, 165, 180, 215, 237, 352, 628) and portions of two others (242, 329), with the following originals:— 1. A brighter dawn is breaking. Easter. Suggested by the Aurora lucis, p. 95, but practically original. 2. Father, Who on man dost shower. Temperance. 3. God, we thank Thee, not in vain. Burial. 4. Holy God, we offer here. Holy Communion. 5. Jesu, good above all other. For Children. 6. Lord, the wind and sea obey Thee. For those at Sea. 7. The winter's sleep was long and deep. St. Philip and St. James. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Martin Shaw

1875 - 1958 Person Name: Martin Shaw, 1875-1958 Harmonizer of "LUCIS CREATOR" in The New English Hymnal Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915). Bert Polman