O see the sky, so blue, so high

Representative Text

1 [Solo: Leader]
O see the sky, so blue, so high,
So very far away!
Who lives up there where all is fair,
Dear children, can you say?

2 [Children]
The day begun, who makes the sun
Look forth with shining face?
When day is done, who takes the sun
So quickly from its place?

3 [Leader]
Who lights the star that twinkles far,
Just like a loving eye?
The moon so oft, that shineth soft,
Who draws it through the sky?

4 [Children]
God lives up there where all is fair
And blue and high and bright;
So great, so kind, none can we find;
He gives us day and night.


Source: Let Youth Praise Him: a hymnal for Christian primary schools, Sunday schools and Christian homes #19

Author: Isabella Middlemass

Middlemass, Isabella, is a native of Edinburgh. She has published a set of seven original Hymns for the Little Ones by D. M., n.d. (1892), including “0 see the sky, so blue, so high.” [God's Care.] Written in 1891 to the tune by Mendelssohn, set to it in 1892 as above, and again in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)  Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: O see the sky, so blue, so high
Author: Isabella Middlemass
Language: English
Refrain First Line: God lives up there where all is fair
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

[I'm very glad the spring has come] (Mendelssohn)


AZMON

Lowell Mason (PHH 96) adapted AZMON from a melody composed by Carl G. Gläser in 1828. Mason published a duple-meter version in his Modern Psalmist (1839) but changed it to triple meter in his later publications. Mason used (often obscure) biblical names for his tune titles; Azmon, a city south of C…

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Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 9 of 9)

Cherub Choir #d16

Happy-Time Songs No.2 #d11

Hymns for the King's Children #d82

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Let Youth Praise Him #19

Let Youth Praise Him. 2nd ed. #d78

Religious Education Music Manual #d98

Singing Youth #d159

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The Children's Hymnal and Service Book #147

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The Sunday School Hymnary #75

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