Da vida a mi alma, oh Dios

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Da vida a mi alma oh Dios

Author: Edwin Hatch; Translator: George Paul Simmonds
Tune: TRENTHAM
Published in 3 hymnals

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Author: Edwin Hatch

Hatch, Edwin, D.D., was born at Derby, Sep. 4, 1835, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, B.A., in honours, in 1857. After holding important appointments in Canada, he returned to England and became Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1867; and Rector of Purleigh, 1883. (See also Crockford). He died Nov. 10, 1889. His hymn-writing was limited. One, and that a very spirited lyric, is in Allon's Congregational Psalmist Hymnal, 1886 "Breathe on me, Breath of God." (Whitsuntide.) Dr. Hatch's hymns were published in his posthumous Towards Fields of Light, London 1890. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) Go to person page >

Translator: George Paul Simmonds

Used pseudonyms G Paul S., J. Paul Simon, and J. Pablo Símon Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	Da vida a mi alma oh Dios
Title:	Da vida a mi alma, oh Dios
English Title:	Breathe on me, breath of God
Author:	Edwin Hatch
Translator:	George Paul Simmonds
Language:	Spanish
Copyright:	© 1964 George P. Simmonds

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TRENTHAM

Robert Jackson (b, Oldham, Lancashire, England, 1842; d. Oldham, 1914) originally, composed TRENTHAM as a setting for Henry W. Baker's "O Perfect Life of Love" (380). Named for a village in Staffordshire, England, close to the town in which Jackson was born, the tune was published with the Baker tex…

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