Day is breaking, dawn is bright

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Day is breaking, dawn is bright

Author: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius; Translator: W. J. Courthope
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

Marcus Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, "The Christian Pindar" was born in northern Spain, a magistrate whose religious convictions came late in life. His subsequent sacred poems were literary and personal, not, like those of St. Ambrose, designed for singing. Selections from them soon entered the Mozarabic rite, however, and have since remained exquisite treasures of the Western churches. His Cathemerinon liber, Peristephanon, and Psychomachia were among the most widely read books of the Middle Ages. A concordance to his works was published by the Medieval Academy of America in 1932. There is a considerable literature on his works. --The Hymnal 1940 Companion… Go to person page >

Translator: W. J. Courthope

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First Line:	Day is breaking, dawn is bright
Author:	Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
Translator:	W. J. Courthope
Meter:	7.5.7.5
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Nox, et tenebrae, et nubila, p, 820, ii. Additional translations are:—
1. Day is breaking, dawn is bright, a fine version by W. J. Courthope in the Society for Promoting Church Knowledge Church Hymnal. 1903, No. 63.
2. Hence gloomy shades which night-time brings, in the New Office Hymn Book, 1905, No. 168, based on Neale.
3. Ye clouds and darkness, hosts of night , by R. M. Pope, in his Hymns of Prudentius, 1905, p. 15, repeated, slightly revised by the author, in The English Hymnal, 1906, No. 54. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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