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[Lord, now lettest thou thy servant]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred Bennett, Mus. Bac. Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 32343 26421 75456 Used With Text: Nunc Dimittis

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Nunc Dimittis

Appears in 311 hymnals First Line: Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Lyrics: 1 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word. 2 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, 3 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; 4 To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Scripture: Luke 2:29 Used With Tune: [Lord, now lettest thou thy servant]

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Nunc Dimittis

Hymnal: The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #C61 (1894) First Line: Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Lyrics: 1 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word. 2 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, 3 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; 4 To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Scripture: Luke 2:29 Tune Title: [Lord, now lettest thou thy servant]
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Nunc Dimittis

Hymnal: Sunday-School Book #C3a (1896) First Line: Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace Languages: English Tune Title: [Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace]

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Alfred Bennett

1805 - 1830 Person Name: Alfred Bennett, Mus. Bac. Composer of "[Lord, now lettest thou thy servant]" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 Alfred Bennett, Born in Chichester, England, 1805, died in Oxford, 1830. Organist, son and pupil of Thomas Bennett. He became organist of New College, Oxford, and of the University in 1825, and received the degree of Mus. Bac. Works: Church Services and anthems; Chants (with William Marshall, 1829); Songs. Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888) https://archive.org/details/cyclopediaofmusi01cham/mode/2up
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