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THE WAITS' SONG
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 17 hymnals Tune Sources: English traditional Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 23212 34321 75123 Used With Text: Behold the Wretch Whose Lust and Wine
THE WAITS' SONG
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Author: Nahum Tate, 1652-1712 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,123 hymnals Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Lord Jesus Christ - His Advent and Nativity; The Church The Sacraments - The Lord's Supper; Hymns for the Young The Lord Jesus - His Life and Death Used With Tune: HITCHEN CAROL
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Behold the Wretch Whose Lust and Wine
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 72 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Behold the wretch whose lust and wine
Had wasted his estate,
He begs a share among the swine,
To taste the husks they eat!
2. I die with hunger here, he cries,
“I starve in foreign lands;
My father’s house has large supplies,
And bounteous are his hands.
3. I’ll go, and with a mournful tongue
Fall down before his face—
Father, I’ve done thy justice wrong,
Nor can deserve thy grace.
4. He said, and hastened to his home,
To seek his father’s love;
The father saw the rebel come,
And all his bowels move.
5. He ran, and fell upon his neck,
Embraced and kissed his son;
The rebel’s heart with sorrow brake
For follies he had done.
6. Take off his clothes of shame and sin,
The father gives command,
“Dress him in garments white and clean,
With rings adorn his hand.
7. A day of feasting I ordain,
Let mirth and joy abound;
My son was dead, and lives again,
Was lost, and now is found. Used With Tune: THE WAITS' SONG Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, 1707, number 123
Behold the Wretch Whose Lust and Wine
Thou God Of Love, Thou Ever Blessed
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 47 hymnals First Line: Thou God of love, Thou ever blest Lyrics: 1 Thou God of love, Thou ever blest
Pity my suffering state;
When wilt Thou set my soul at rest
From lips that love deceit?
2 Hard lot of mine! My days are cast
Among the sons of strife,
Whose never ceasing brawlings waste
My golden hours of life.
3 O might I fly to change my place
How would I choose to dwell
In some wide lonesome wilderness,
And leave these gates of hell!
4 Peace is the blessing that I seek,
How lovely are its charms!
I am for peace; but when I speak,
They all declare for arms.
5 New passions still their souls engage,
And keep their malice strong:
What shall be done to curb thy rage,
O thou devouring tongue!
6 Should burning arrows smite thee thro’,
Strict justice would approve;
But I had rather spare my foe,
And melt his heart with love.
Used With Tune: THE WAITS' SONG Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719
Thou God Of Love, Thou Ever Blessed
The Moon Shines Bright
Author: John Cozens Hymnal: Carols of Christmas #15a (1946) First Line: The moon shines bright and the stars give a light Languages: English Tune Title: [The moon shines bright and the stars give a light]
The Moon Shines Bright
The moon shines bright and the stars give a light
Author: John Cozens Hymnal: Uncommon Christmas Carols #31 (1941) Tune Title: [The moon shines bright and the stars give a light]
The moon shines bright and the stars give a light
The Moon Shines Bright
Hymnal: Noëls #75 (1932) First Line: The moon shines bright and the stars give a light Languages: English Tune Title: [The moon shines bright and the stars give a light]
The Moon Shines Bright
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Author of "The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light" in The Australian Hymn Book with Catholic Supplement In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
John Stainer
1840 - 1901 Person Name: Sir John Stainer Arranger of "[The moon shines bright and the stars give a light]" in Noëls
John Stainer
Nahum Tate
1652 - 1715 Person Name: Nahum Tate, 1652-1712 Author of "While shepherds watched their flocks by night" in The Book of Praise Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors, on August 12, 1715.
--The Hymnal 1940 Companion
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