O Love, Thou fathomless abyss

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O Love, Thou fathomless abyss

Author: Anonymous
Published in 12 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Marian Hymns - Music for Manuals

Author: Anonymous

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Text Information

First Line:	O Love, Thou fathomless abyss
Author:	Anonymous
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

STELLA (English)

First published in Henri Frederick Hemy's Easy Hymn Tunes for Catholic Schools (1851), STELLA was a folk tune from northern England that Hemy heard sung by children in Stella, a village near Newcastle-upon-Tyme. In modified bar form (AA'B), the tune has an interesting rhythmic structure. Antiphonal…

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