Tune: DEERHURST

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DEERHURST

Composer: James Langran
Published in 55 hymnals

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Composer: James Langran

James Langran (b. St. Pancras, London, England, November 10, 1835; d. Tottenham, London, England, June 8, 1909) studied organ as a youth but did not receive his Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford until he was forty-nine years old. He had several organist positions–the longest was at St. Paul's Church, Tottenham, England, from 1870 to 1909. He also taught music at St. Katherine's Training College for Schoolmistresses (1878-1909). Music editor of theNew Mitre Hymnal　(1875), Langran composed around fifty hymn tunes and contributed several of them to early editions of Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	DEERHURST
Composer:	James Langran
Meter:	8.7.8.7
Incipit:	35317 12343 25765
Key:	E Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Hark! The Sound of Holy Voices

Lord, Her Watch Thy Church is Keeping

Lord, her watch Thy Church is keeping:
When shall earth Thy rule obey?
When shall end the night of weeping?
When shall break the promised day?
See the whitening harvest languish,
Waiting still the laborers' toil;
Was it vain, Thy Son's deep anguish?
Shall the Strong retain the spoil?

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150 Last Verse Harmonies: For Use with the Hymn Books of the Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed and Other Free Churches
Composer/Editor Andrew Wright
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 40
200 New Last Verses
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 53
More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 53