Christopher Wordsworth--nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth--was born in 1807. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high honours, in 1830; M.A. in 1833; D.D. in 1839. He was elected Fellow of his College in 1830, and public orator of the University in 1836; received Priest's Orders in 1835; head master of Harrow School in 1836; Canon of Westminster Abbey in 1844; Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1847-48; Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks, in 1850; Archdeacon of Westminster, in 1865; Bishop of Lincoln, in 1868. His writings are numerous, and some of them very valuable. Most of his works are in prose. His "Holy Year; or, Hymns for Sundays, Holidays, and other occ… Go to person page >
Translator: Daniel W. Hemans
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This tune is adapted from Barthélemon's piece Durandarte and Belerma: A Pathetic Scotch Ballad (1797). Some editors describe AUTUMN as "adapted from Psalm xlii in the Genevan Psalter, 1551", referring to the similarity between this tune and FREU DICH SEHR.
Display Title: O Mother Dear, JerusalemFirst Line: O Jerusalem WaŋkaŋtuTune Title: AUTUMNScripture: Revelation 21:10Date: 1951Subject: Heaven |Source: From "Book of Common Praise" by permission of A. S. Barnes & Co.
Display Title: O Jerusalem Wankantu (Hark! the sound of holy voices)First Line: O Jerusalem Wankantu (Hark! the sound of holy voices)Author: Christopher Wordsworth; Daniel W. HemansMeter: 8.7.8.7 D.Date: 1946Subject: Heaven |
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