We Gather Here to Bid Farewell

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We gather here to bid farewell

Author: E. Margaret Clarkson (1987)
Tune: WINCHESTER NEW
ONE LICENSE: 26068
Published in 3 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Advent Music for Manuals, Set 2

Representative Text

Source: The Book of Praise #614

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Author: E. Margaret Clarkson

Edith Margaret Clarkson was a Canadian hymn writer and author, born June 8, 1915, in Melville, Saskatchewan, and long resident in Toronto. Trained as a teacher, she served for decades in public schools while writing hymns and devotional prose marked by doctrinal clarity and poetic restraint. Early texts include “So Send I You” (1937) and “We Come, O Christ, to Thee” (1946); later she contributed widely sung hymns such as “O Father, You Are Sovereign” and “For Your Gift of God the Spirit,” and published numerous books on the Christian life and suffering. Her work—deeply shaped by Reformed conviction—was commissioned and sung in missionary and ecumenical settings worldwide. Clarkson died in 2008, having been named a Fellow… Go to person page >

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First Line:	We gather here to bid farewell
Title:	We Gather Here to Bid Farewell
Author:	E. Margaret Clarkson (1987)
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1987 by Hope Publishing Company

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Tune

WINCHESTER NEW

The original version of WINCHESTER NEW appeared in Musikalisches Handbuch der geistlichen Melodien, published in Hamburg, Germany, in 1690 by Georg Wittwe. It was set to the text “Wer nur den lieben Gott” (see 446). An expanded version of the tune was a setting for "Dir, dir Jehova" (see 203) in…

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MORNING HYMN (Barthélemon)

During the early 1780s François H. Barthélemon (b. Bordeaux, France, 1741; d. Southwark, Surrey, England, 1808) wrote MORNING HYMN at the request of Jacob Duche, chaplain at the Female Orphan Asylum in London, England. Duche had requested that Barthélemon compose a tune for the well-known morning…

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