New Year's Day

Let me alone another year

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: BELMONT (Gardiner)
Published in 11 hymnals

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Let me alone another year
Title: New Year's Day
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Let me alone [another] this only year. C.Wesley. [Death Anticipated]. Published in Preparation for Death in Several Hymns, 1772, No. 43, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. vii. p. 396). In 1830 it was given in the supplement to the Wesleyan Hymn Book as "Let me alone another year;" and this has been repeated in a few collections. The hymn "Because for me the Saviour prays," in the American Methodist Episcopal Hymns, 1849, No. 381, is from this hymn, and begins with the second half of stanza i. with the lines transposed.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Tune

BELMONT (Gardiner)

This tune has been mis-attributed to various other composers, but is clearly the work of the above-named composer.

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Instances

Instances (1 - 11 of 11)

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d474

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d475

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #d473

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #805

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #707

Hymn Book of the Colored M.E. Church in America #d296

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South #707

The Singer's Choice #d99

Zion's Hymns, for the Use of the Original Free-Will Baptist Church of North Carolina #d151

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A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, with a Supplement #710

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #826

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