එඞේරු තම රැළවල් රකිත රෑ දිනේ

එඞේරු තම රැළවල් (Eṅēru tama ræḷaval)

Author: Nahum Tate; Translator: J. S. De Silva
Tune: WINCHESTER OLD
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 එඞේරු තම රැළවල්
රකිත රෑ දිනේ
සුර දුතයෙක් සුනිමල්
ආයේ බෝ තෙදිනේ

2 බියපත් එඬේරුන් හට
කීවයි දූත මෙසේ—
බිය නොවව් මම් සැමට
ගෙනෙම් හසුන් තොසේ

3 මෙදින දාවිත් නුවරේ
උපන්නයි තොපටා
සමිඳු ක්‍රිස්තුස් පවරේ
මිදුම්කරු තුමා

4 ඔතා සිහින් සළුවලින්
එහි ඔරුවක
තබා ඇත දෙව් කුමරුන්
එය ලකුණක

5 මෙ බස් කිව් පසු දෙවදූතූන්
දිස්විය විගසින්
දූත රැසක් යුතු තෙදින්
මෙසේ ගී නගමින්—

6 උස් තැන් දෙවි මහිමයත්
පොළොවෙහි සාමෙත්
මිනිසුන්ට කරුණාවත්
වේවා දැන් හා මතුත්

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15448

Author: Nahum Tate

Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors… Go to person page >

Translator: J. S. De Silva

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Text Information

First Line: එඞේරු තම රැළවල් (Eṅēru tama ræḷaval)
Title: එඞේරු තම රැළවල් රකිත රෑ දිනේ
English Title: While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Author: Nahum Tate
Translator: J. S. De Silva
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: Sinhala
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

WINCHESTER OLD

WINCHESTER OLD is a famous common-meter psalm tune, presumably arranged by George Kirbye (b. Suffolk, England, c. 1560; d. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, 1634) from a melody in Christopher Tye's Acts of the Apostles and published in T. Este's The Whole Book of Psalmes (1592) set to Psalm 84. Ki…

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