Bring, O Morn, Thy Music
Hymn composed by
John Bacchus DykesContextual information
This hymn appears as #39 in Singing the Living Tradition.
This hymn appears as #39 in Singing the Living Tradition.
Tune Name
NICAEA
Tune Name
Text Meter
12.13.12.10.
10.9.10.9
Song Composer
John Bacchus DykesHymn Arranger
Composer Background information
John Bacchus Dykes (1823–1876), from Yorkshire, England, directed the choir of Durham Cathedral and was a founder of the University Musical Society at Cambridge. His tune NICAEA was composed for Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861) for the hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy, Author of Creation.” Appropriate to Bishop Heber’s original text, the name refers to the Christian ecumenical council at Nicaea in 325 CE, at which the doctrine of the Trinity was formalized.
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Lyrics
Bring, O morn, thy music! Night, thy starlit silence!
Oceans, laugh in rapture to the storm-winds coursing free!
Suns and planets chorus, praise to Thee, Most Holy -
Who was, and is, and evermore shall be.
Life and death, thy creatures, praise thee, mighty Giver!
Praise and prayer are rising in thy beast and bird and tree:
Lo! they praise and vanish, vanish at thy bidding -
Who was, and is, and evermore shall be.
Life nor death can part us, O thou Love eternal,
Shepherd of the wandering star and souls that wayward flee!
Homeward draws the spirit to thy Spirit yearning -
Who was, and is, and evermore shall be.
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