I ask not wealth, but power to take

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I ask not wealth, but power to take

Author: Phoebe Cary
Published in 13 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Instrumental
	The Cross (A Hymn Medley for Orchestra)

Handbells
	Hymns for the Church Year (Distinctive h…

Author: Phoebe Cary

Phoebe Cary, (1824-1871) was born and raised in Mount Healthy in Hamilton County, Ohio. Her family came from Lyme, New Hampshire to Ohio when her grandfather was given land in return for his service in the Continental Army. She was the younger sister of Alice Cary (1820-1871). She and Alice submitted poetry to religious periodicals. Phoebe remained in Ohio and continued to write many hymns, including, "One sweetly solemn thought." Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	I ask not wealth, but power to take
Author:	Phoebe Cary
Source:	Elim; or Hymns of Holy Refreshment, 1866
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

HAMBURG

Lowell Mason (PHH 96) composed HAMBURG (named after the German city) in 1824. The tune was published in the 1825 edition of Mason's Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason indicated that the tune was based on a chant in the first Gregorian tone. HAMBURG is a very simple tune with…

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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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ANGELUS (Joseph)

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