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Text:O Strength and Stay upholding all creation
Author:St. Ambrose, 340-397
Translator:Rev. J. Ellerton
Translator:Rev. F. J. A. Hort
Tune:STRENGTH AND STAY
Composer:Rev. J. B. Dykes

28b. O Strength and Stay upholding all creation

Text Information
First Line: O Strength and Stay upholding all creation
Latin Title: Rerum Deus tenax vigor
Translator: Rev. J. Ellerton (1870)
Translator: Rev. F. J. A. Hort (1870)
Author: St. Ambrose, 340-397
Meter: 11 10. 11 10.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1939
Topic: Evening
Notes: Alternative tunes, DONNE SECOURS, Nos. 142, 649, and WELWYN, No. 69.
Tune Information
Name: STRENGTH AND STAY
Composer: Rev. J. B. Dykes (1875)
Meter: 11 10. 11 10.
Key: D Major
Notes: For a higher setting see No. 195.



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