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CONQUEST (Barrows)

CONQUEST (Barrows)

Composer: Donald S. Barrows (1941)
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: Donald S. Barrows

Donald S. Barrow was Organist and Choir Master at Christ Church, Episcopal of Rochester, New York from 1933 to 1938. Previously he designed organs and he held patents for both railroad equipment and electro-pneumatic organ actions. Dianne Shapiro, from OHS Pipe Organ Database, (https://pipeorgandatabase.org/BuilderDetails.php?BuilderID… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: CONQUEST (Barrows)
Composer: Donald S. Barrows (1941)
Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8
Incipit: 51653 12356 71271
Key: D Major
Copyright: Copyright 1943, by The Church Pension Fund

Texts

Thou God who brought the nations forth

The Conqueror

O North, with all thy vales of green,
O South, with all thy palms!
From peopled towns and vales between,
Uplift the voice of psalms;
Raise, ancient East, the anthem high,
And let the youthful West reply.

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At Worship #280

Audio

The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #541

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