Earth has a joy unknown in heaven

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Earth has a joy unknown in heaven

Author: Augustus Lucas Hillhouse
Tune: WARD (Scottish)
Published in 32 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	The Church Pianist's Library, Vol. 11

Author: Augustus Lucas Hillhouse

Hillhouse, Augustus Lucas, younger brother of James Hillhouse (commonly known as the poet Hillhouse), was born at New Haven, Connecticut, 1792, and educated at Yale, where he graduated in 1810. For some time he conducted a school in Paris; and died near that city, March 14, 1859. His hymn:— Trembling before Thine awful throne (Joy in the Forgiveness of Sins) was written cir. 1816, and published in the Christian Spectator, New Haven, April, 1822. It is a good hymn, and is in extensive use, but usually in an abbreviated form. The hymn, "Earth has a joy unknown to heaven," found in a few American hymnbooks, begins with st. iii. of this hymn. Original text in Christ in Song, 1870. -- John Julian, Dictionary… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Earth has a joy unknown in heaven
Author:	Augustus Lucas Hillhouse
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

WARD (Scottish)

GERMANY (Gardiner)

CANONBURY

Derived from the fourth piano piece in Robert A. Schumann's Nachtstücke, Opus 23 (1839), CANONBURY first appeared as a hymn tune in J. Ireland Tucker's Hymnal with Tunes, Old and New (1872). The tune, whose title refers to a street and square in Islington, London, England, is often matched to Haver…

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