The Moon with Borrowed Light

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The moon with borrowed light

Author: Thomas H. Troeger
Tune: TERRA BEATA
Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Come, Christians, Join to Sing: Four Org…

Instrumental
	FANTASY ON "TERRA BEATA"

Handbells
	All Things Bright and Beautiful

Author: Thomas H. Troeger

Professor Thomas H. Troeger is ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church and as a minister in the Presbyterian Church. He has written 20 books in the fields of preaching, poetry, hymnody and worship. He studied at Yale University, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Dickinson College and Virginia Theological Seminary. He is also a poet whose work appears in many hymnals. NN, Hymnary Go to person page >

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First Line:	The moon with borrowed light
Title:	The Moon with Borrowed Light
Author:	Thomas H. Troeger
Meter:	6.6.8.6 D
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1986, Oxford University Press

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TERRA BEATA

TERRA BEATA was originally a traditional English folk tune, a variant of which, entitled RUSPER, appeared in The English Hymnal in 1906. Franklin L. Sheppard (b. Philadelphia, PA, 1852; d. Germantown, PA, 1930) arranged the tune for Babcock's text and published it in the Presbyterian church school h…

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