Tune: REMSEN (Holbrook)

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REMSEN (Holbrook)

Composer: Joseph P. Holbrook (1862)
Published in 27 hymnals

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Composer: Joseph P. Holbrook

Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome. from The English hymn: its development and use in worship By Louis FitzGerald Benson Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	REMSEN (Holbrook)
Composer:	Joseph P. Holbrook (1862)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Incipit:	53332 16143 33125
Key:	A♭ Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Lord, lead the way the Savior went

Lord, lead the way the Saviour went,
By lane and cell obscure,
And let love's treasures still be spent,
Like His, upon the poor:
Like Him, through scenes of deep distress,
Who bore the world's sad weight,
We, in their crowded loneliness,
Would seek the desolate.

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Sympathy with the Afflicted

يا رب زدنا نعمة

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