Another year hath fled; renew

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Another year hath fled; renew

Author: Arthur T. Russell
Tune: ST. SULPICE
Published in 9 hymnals

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1 Another year hath fled; renew
Lord, with our days Thy love!
Our days are evil here and few;
We look to live above:
We will not grieve, though day by day
We pass from earthly joys away;
Our joy abides in Thee.

2 Yet, when our sins we call to mind,
We cannot fail to grieve;
But Thou art pitiful and kind,
And wilt our prayer receive:
O Jesu, evermore the same,
Our hope we rest upon Thy name;
Our hope abides in Thee.

3 For all the future, Lord, prepare
Our souls with strength divine;
Help us to cast on Thee our care,
And on Thy servants shine:
Life without Thee is dark and drear;
Death is not death if Thou art near;
Our life abides in Thee.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16091

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Author: Arthur T. Russell

Arthur Tozer Russell was born at Northampton, March 20, 1806. He entered S. John's College, Cambridge, in 1824, took the Hulsean Prize in 1825, and was afterwards elected to a scholarship. He was ordained Deacon in 1829, Priest in 1830, and the same year was appointed Vicar of Caxton. In 1852, he was preferred to the vicarage of Whaddon. In 1863, he removed to S. Thomas', Toxteth Park, near Liverpool, and in 1867, to Holy Trinity, Wellington, Salop. He is the editor and author of numerous publications, among them several volumes of hymns. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, 1872.… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	Another year hath fled; renew
Author:	Arthur T. Russell
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Another year hath fled, renew. A. T. Russell [0ld and New Year.] Written Nov. 20, 1850 (S. MSS.), and first published in his Psalms and Hymns, &c., 1851, No. 63, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines. In 1863 it was republished in Kennedy, No. 140, in a slightly altered form, but in Thring's Collection, 1882, No. 130, the original text is restored with the exception of stanza i., 1. 1, has for hath, and the repetition of the last line of each stanza which was repeated in the original to suit the tune to which the hymn was written. With the first line as "Another year has fled, renew," it is also in use in Canada, and other English-speaking countries.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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