Humble, Lord, my haughty spirit

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Humble, Lord, my haughty spirit

Author: Henry Francis Lyte (1834)
Tune: DORRANCE
Published in 10 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Seasonal Psalms for Organ, Vol. 1

Choral
	In You, O Lord, I Will Place My Trust

Instrumental
	In dulci jubilo - Three Advent/Christma…

Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Humble, Lord, my haughty spirit
Author:	Henry Francis Lyte (1834)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

DORRANCE

GENEVAN 42

Louis Bourgeois (PHH 3) composed or adapted this tune for Psalm 42 for the Genevan psalter. The 1564 harmonization by Claude Goudimel (PHH 6) originally placed the melody in the tenor. An alternate harmonization with descants by Johann Crüger (PHH 42) can be found opposite 41 in the Psalter Hymnal.…

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