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MOYLE

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Beecher Tune Sources: Irish dirge; Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes by Henry Ward Beecher (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1855) Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 33221 32175 117 Used With Text: Brother, Thou Art Gone Before Us

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Brother, Thou Art Gone Before Us

Author: Henry H. Milman Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 57 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Brother, thou art gone before us; Where thy saintly soul is flown, Tears are wiped away for ever, And all sorrow is unknown; From the burden of the body, From all care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest. 2 O’er the toilsome way thou’st traveled And endured the heavy load; Christ hath brought thy footsteps languid Safely to His blest abode. Thou art resting now, like Lazarus, On thy heav’nly Father’s breast, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest. 3 Sin no more can taint thy spirit, Nor can doubt thy faith assail; Thou thy welcome has receivèd, Now thy strength shall never fail; And thou’rt sure to meet the holy, Whom on earth thou loved’st best, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest. 4 To thy grave we sadly bear thee, There in dust we place thy head; O’er thee now the turf is pressing, And grows green thy narrow bed. But thy spirit soars to glory, Free, among the faithful blest, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest. 5 When the Lord shall send His summons Unto us who’re left behind, May we, by the world untainted, Gracious welcome with thee find; Each like thee, in peace departing, To the kingdom of the blest, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest. Used With Tune: MOYLE Text Sources: "The Martyr of Antioch"

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Brother, Thou Art Gone Before Us

Author: Henry H. Milman Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #12069 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 Brother, thou art gone before us; Where thy saintly soul is flown, Tears are wiped away for ever, And all sorrow is unknown; From the burden of the body, From all care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest. 2 O’er the toilsome way thou’st traveled And endured the heavy load; Christ hath brought thy footsteps languid Safely to His blest abode. Thou art resting now, like Lazarus, On thy heav’nly Father’s breast, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest. 3 Sin no more can taint thy spirit, Nor can doubt thy faith assail; Thou thy welcome has receivèd, Now thy strength shall never fail; And thou’rt sure to meet the holy, Whom on earth thou loved’st best, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest. 4 To thy grave we sadly bear thee, There in dust we place thy head; O’er thee now the turf is pressing, And grows green thy narrow bed. But thy spirit soars to glory, Free, among the faithful blest, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest. 5 When the Lord shall send His summons Unto us who’re left behind, May we, by the world untainted, Gracious welcome with thee find; Each like thee, in peace departing, To the kingdom of the blest, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest. Languages: English Tune Title: MOYLE
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Brother, thou art gone before us

Author: Milman Hymnal: Plymouth Collection #a1199 (1863) Tune Title: MOYLE
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Brother, thou art gone before us

Author: Milman Hymnal: Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations #1199 (1855) Tune Title: MOYLE

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Henry Hart Milman

1791 - 1868 Person Name: Henry H. Milman Author of "Brother, Thou Art Gone Before Us" in The Cyber Hymnal Milman, Henry Hart, D.D., the youngest son of Sir Francis Milman (who received his Baronetage as an eminent Court physician), was born Feb. 10th, 1791, and educated at Dr. Burney's at Greenwich, and subsequently at Eton. His career at B. N. C. Oxford, was brilliant. He took a first class in classics, and carried off the Newdigate, Latin Verse, Latin Essay, and English Essay. His Newdigate on the Apollo Belvedere, 1812, is styled by Dean Stanley "the most perfect of Oxford prize poems." His literary career for several years promised to be poetical. His tragedy Fazio was played at Covent Garden, Miss O'Neill acting Bianca. Samor was written in the year of his appointment to St. Mary's, Reading (1817); The Fall of Jerusalem (1820); Belshazzar and The Martyr of Antioch (1822), and Anne Boleyn, gained a brilliant reception from the reviewers and the public. He was appointed Poetry Professor at Oxford in 1821, and was succeeded ten years after by Keble. It must have been before 1823, the date of Heber's consecration to Calcutta, that the 13 hymns he contributed to Heber's Hymns were composed. But his poetry was only the prelude to his larger work. The Bampton Lectures (1827) mark his transition to theological study, and the future direction of it was permanently fixed by his History of the Jews (1829). This book raised a storm of obloquy. It was denounced from the University pulpit, and in the British Critic. "It was the first decisive inroad of German theology into England, the first palpable indication that the Bible could be studied like another book, that the characters and events of the sacred history could be treated at once critically and reverently" (Dean Stanley). In 1835 he was presented by Sir Robert Peel to a Canonry at Westminster and the Rectory of St. Margaret's. In 1839 appeared his valuable edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall; and in 1840 his History of Christianity to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire. Among his minor works in a different field were his Life of Keats and his edition and Life of Horace. It was not till 1854 that his greatest work—-for "vast and varied learning, indefatigable industry, calm impartiality, and subtle and acute criticism, among the most memorable in our language" (Quart Rev.)—-Latin Christianity—-appeared. He had been appointed Dean of St. Paul's in 1849. The great services under the dome originated in his tenure of the Deanery. His latest work, published after his death, Sept. 24, 1868, was The Annals of St. Paul’s. Though one of the most illustrious in the school of English liberal theology, he had no sympathy with the extreme speculations of Germany. The "criticism" of Tübingen "will rarely bear criticism." He "should like an Ewald to criticise Ewald." "Christianity will survive the criticism of Dr. Strauss," and the "bright flashing artillery" of Rénan. His historical style has been compared to Gibbon in its use of epigram and antithesis. His narrative is full of rapidity of movement. His long complex paragraphs have often a splendour of imagination as well as wealth of thought. All the varied powers of his mind found vent in his conversation; he was called, after his death, "the last of the great converters." The catalogue of his friends from the days of Heber, "his early friend," to those of Hallam, Macaulay, and Dean Stanley, was long and distinguished. Milman's 13 hymns were published in Heber's posthumous Hymns in 1827, and subsequently in his own Selection of Psalms & Hymns, 1837. The fine hymn for The Burial of the Dead, in Thring's Collection, "Brother, thou art gone before us," is from The Martyr of Antioch (1822). Like Heber's, they aim at higher literary expression and lyric grace. He makes free use of refrains. The structure is often excellent. His style is less florid and fuller of burning, sometimes lurid force than Heber's. His hymn for the 16th Sunday after Trinity, "When our heads are bowed with woe," has no peer in its presentation of Christ's human sympathy; the hymn for the 2nd Sunday in Lent, “Oh! help us, Lord! each hour of need," is a piece of pure deep devotion. "Ride on, ride on in majesty," the hymn for Palm Sunday, is one of our best hymns. And the stanzas for Good Friday, "Bound upon the accursed tree," form one of the finest meditations on the Passion. All his hymns are still in common use. [Rev.H.Leigh Bennett, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Charles Beecher

1815 - 1900 Arranger of "MOYLE" in The Cyber Hymnal Beecher, Charles, son of the well-known Dr. Lyman Beecher, whose autobiography he chiefly edited, and brother of Henry Ward Beecher, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, 1815. Mr. Beecher was for some time a Congregational pastor at Georgetown, Mass. He has published Review of Spiritual Manifestations, 1853; Pen Pictures of the Bible, 1855, &c. His hymns were contributed to his brother's Plymouth Collection, 1855, and include:— 1. There's rest in the grave. Heaven. 2. We are on our journey home. Heaven. The latter is in the more extensive use, but both are unknown to the English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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