Cease, ye tearful mourners

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Cease, ye tearful mourners

Author: Edward Caswall
Published in 4 hymnals

Author: Edward Caswall

Edward Caswall was born in 1814, at Yately, in Hampshire, where his father was a clergyman. In 1832, he went to Brasenose College, Oxford, and in 1836, took a second-class in classics. His humorous work, "The Art of Pluck," was published in 1835; it is still selling at Oxford, having passed through many editions. In 1838, he was ordained Deacon, and in 1839, Priest. He became perpetural Curate of Stratford-sub-Castle in 1840. In 1841, he resigned his incumbency and visited Ireland. In 1847, he joined the Church of Rome. In 1850, he was admitted into the Congregation of the Oratory at Birmingham, where he has since remained. He has published several works in prose and poetry. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Cease, ye tearful mourners
Author:	Edward Caswall
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Deus ignee fons animarum. A. C. Prudentins. [Burial of the Dead.] This beautiful poem, in 44 stanzas of 4 lines, is No. x. in his Cathemerinon, and may be found in all editions of his works, e.g. Deventer, 1490, Lond., 1824, &c. It is also in a manuscript of the 5th century, in the Bibl. Nat. Paris (8084, f. 32b), and in a Mozarabic Office Book of 11th century, in the British Museum (Add. 30851, f. 160). Its liturgical use has been limited, but in the Mozarabic Breviary (Toledo, 1502, f. 3136) it is given in the Office for the Dead. The full text is in Wackernagel, i., No. 40, and a part in Daniel, i., No. 115, pt ii.It has been translated into English direct from the Latin, and also through the German as follows:—

i. From the Latin:—
2. Cease, ye tearful mourners. By E. Caswall, in his Masque of Mary, &c, 1858, in 13 stanzas of 4 lines, and again in his Hymns & Poems, 1873. It was repeated in an abridged form in the 1862 Appendix to the Hymnal Noted; and in the Hymnary, 1872.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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