Tune: SUSSEX (DOUGLAS)

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SUSSEX (DOUGLAS)

Arranged, harmonized: Winfred Douglas (1918)
Published in 1 hymnal

Arranged, harmonized: Winfred Douglas

Charles Winfred Douglas (b. Oswego, NY, 1867; d. Santa Rosa, CA, 1944), an influential leader in Episcopalian liturgical and musical life. Educated at Syracuse University and St. Andrews Divinity School, Syracuse, New York, he moved to Colorado for his health. There he studied at St. Matthew's Hall, Denver, and founded the Mission of the Transfiguration in Evergreen (1897). Ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1899, he also studied in France, Germany and England, where he spent time with the Benedictines of Solesmes on the Island of Wight from 1903 to 1906. For much of his life, Douglas served as director of music at the Community of St. Mary in Peekskill, New York, and had associations with cathedrals in Denver, Colorado, and Fond… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	SUSSEX (DOUGLAS)
Arranged, harmonized:	Winfred Douglas (1918)
Meter:	8.7.8.7
Incipit:	15543 23432 12323
Source:	English Folksong
Copyright:	Public Domain

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O let the children come to me,

"O let the children come to me,"
Dear Savior, thou commandest:
And for these innocents we see
How thou in welcome standest.
Still goes thy Spirit freely forth,
To gladden souls that need thee,
And thou bestowest heavenly birth,
If they like children heed thee,
For theirs the kingdom is.

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