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Text:Hark what a sound, and too divine for hearing
Author:Frederick William Henry Myers
Tune:WELWYN
Composer:Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty

69. Hark what a sound, and too divine for hearing

Text Information
First Line: Hark what a sound, and too divine for hearing
Author: Frederick William Henry Myers (1867)
Meter: 11 10. 11 10.
Publication Date: 1939
Topic: Advent
Copyright: By permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London, and the Macmillan Co. of Canada, Ltd., Toronto.
Notes: Now Public Domain; Alternative tune, STRENGTH AND STAY, No. 28.
Tune Information
Name: WELWYN
Composer: Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty (1902)
Meter: 11 10. 11 10.
Key: F Major
Copyright: By permission of the Abbot of Downside
Notes: Now Public Domain



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