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[Waken! Christian children] (Hamerton)

[Waken! Christian children] (Hamerton)

Composer: Samuel Collingwood Hamerton (1861)
Published in 7 hymnals


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Composer: Samuel Collingwood Hamerton

Hamerton, Samuel Collingwood, born in 1833, educated at University College, Oxford (B.A. 1856), Incumbent of St. Paul's, Warwick, from 1866, and died there Jan. 6, 1872. His hymn "Waken, Christian children" (Christmas Carol), is in Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872; the Hymnal Companion, 1890, and others. It appeared as a Carol published by Masters, in 1861. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)  Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Waken! Christian children] (Hamerton)
Composer: Samuel Collingwood Hamerton (1861)
Meter: 6.5.6.5
Incipit: 11771 12222 34444
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Media

The Cyber Hymnal #7147
Text: Waken! Christian Children
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The Cyber Hymnal #7147

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