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The world itself is blithe and gay
Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Easter Used With Tune: [The world itself is blithe and gay]
The world itself is blithe and gay
GOD IS ASCENDED
Appears in 8 hymnals Incipit: 11434 54321 46712 Used With Text: The world itself is blithe and gay
GOD IS ASCENDED
The world itself is blithe and gay
Author: George R. Woodward, 1848-1934 Hymnal: The Beacon Song and Service book #239 (1935) Meter: 8.8 with alleluias Refrain First Line: Alleluia! Alleluia! Topics: Easter Languages: English Tune Title: HILARITER
The world itself is blithe and gay
The world itself is blithe and gay
Hymnal: Carols Old and Carols New #317 (1916) Topics: Easter Languages: English Tune Title: [The world itself is blithe and gay]
The world itself is blithe and gay
The World Itself Is Blithe and Gay
Author: Friedrich Spee; George R. Woodward Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #16551 Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: The world itself is bright and gay Lyrics:
1 The world itself is bright and gay,
Alleluya, alleluya;
And keeps with Jesus Easter day,
Alleluya, alleluya.
2 The skies with angel music ring,
Alleluya, alleluya;
While holy church on earth doth sing,
Alleluya, alleluya.
3 Our fields are decked in vernal hue,
Alleluya, alleluya;
The trees begin to bloom anew,
Alleluya, alleluya.
4 Hark! birds are singing far and near!
Alleluya, alleluya;
The nightingale ’tis joy to hear.
Alleluya, alleluya.
5 Now sunbeams daily stronger grow,
Alleluya, alleluya;
And lend the earth a brighter glow,
Alleluya, alleluya.
6 The world itself is bright and gay,
Alleluya, alleluya;
And keeps with Jesus Easter day,
Alleluya, alleluya.
Languages: English Tune Title: HILARITER
The World Itself Is Blithe and Gay
George Ratcliffe Woodward
1848 - 1934 Person Name: George R. Woodward, 1848-1934 Translator of "The world itself is blithe and gay" in The Beacon Song and Service book Educated at Caius College in Cambridge, England, George R. Woodward (b. Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, 1848; d. Highgate, London, England, 1934) was ordained in the Church of England in 1874. He served in six parishes in London, Norfolk, and Suffolk. He was a gifted linguist and translator of a large number of hymns from Greek, Latin, and German. But Woodward's theory of translation was a rigid one–he held that the translation ought to reproduce the meter and rhyme scheme of the original as well as its contents. This practice did not always produce singable hymns; his translations are therefore used more often today as valuable resources than as congregational hymns. With Charles Wood he published three series of The Cowley Carol Book (1901, 1902, 1919), two editions of Songs of Syon (1904, 1910), An Italian Carol Book (1920), and the Cambridge Carol Book
George Ratcliffe Woodward
Friedrich von Spee
1591 - 1635 Person Name: Friedrich Spee Author of "The World Itself Is Blithe and Gay" in The Cyber Hymnal Spee, Friedrich von, son of Peter Spee (of the family of Spee, of Langenfeld), judge at Kaisers worth, was born at Kaisersworth, Feb. 25, 1591. He was educated in the Jesuit gymnasium at Cologne, entered the order of the Jesuits there on Sept. 22, 1610, and was ordained priest about 1621. From 1613 to 1624 he was one of the tutors in the Jesuit college at Cologne, and was then sent to Paderborn to assist in the Counter Reformation. In 1627 he was summoned by the Bishop of Würzburg to act as confessor to persons accused of witchcraft, and, within two years, had to accompany to the stake some 200 persons, of all ranks and ages, in whose innocence he himself firmly believed (His Cautio criminalis, sen de processibus contra sagas lib, Rinteln, 1631, was the means of almost putting a stop to such cruelties). He was then sent to further the Counter Reformation at Peine near Hildesheim, but on April 29, 1629, he was nearly murdered by some persons from Hildesheim. In 1631 he became professor of Moral Theology at Cologne. The last years of his life were spent at Trier, where, after the city had been stormed by the Spanish troops on May 6, 1635, he contracted a fever from some of the hospital patients to whom he was ministering, and died there Aug. 7, 1635. (Koch, iv. 185; Goedeke's Grundriss, vol. iii., 1887, p. 193,
Friedrich von Spee
G. R. Woodard
Person Name: George R. Woodard Author of "The world itself is blithe and gay" in The New Church Hymnal
G. R. Woodard
