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Bounteous Spirit, Ever Shedding

Author: Anonymous; Jackson Mason Meter: 8.5.8.8.5.7.7.7.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Bounteous Spirit, ever shedding Life the world to fill! Swarms the fruitful globe o’erspreading, Shoals their ocean pathway threading, Own Thy quickening thrill: Author of each creature’s birth, Life of life beneath the earth, Everywhere, O Spirit blest, Thou art motion, Thou art rest. 2. Come, Creator! grace bestowing— All Thy sevenfold dower! Come, Thy peace and bounty strowing, Earth’s renewer! Thine the sowing Thine the gladdening shower. Comforter! what joy Thou art To the blest and faithful heart; But to man’s primeval foe Uttermost despair and woe. 3. O’er the waters of creation Moved Thy wings divine; When the world, to animation Waking ’neath Thy visitation, Teemed with powers benign: Thou didst man to being call Didst restore him from his fall; Pouring, like the latter rain, Grace to quicken him again. 4. Thine the Gospel voices, crying As with trumpet sound; Till the world, in darkness lying, Rose from deathly sleep, descrying Heavenly light around. Man, to reach that prize revealed, Armed with Thee as with a shield, Nerved and girt his fight to win, Quells the prince of death and sin. 5. Lowliest homage now before Thee Let the ransomed pay; For Thy wondrous gifts adore Thee, By Thy holiness implore Thee, While in love they pray: Holy! Holy! we repeat, Kneeling at Thy mercy seat; There unbosom every woe, Groanings Thou alone canst know. 6. Fount of grace for every nation, Refuge of the soul! Strengthen Thou each new creation, With the waters of salvation Make the guilty whole: Rule on earth the powers that be; Give us priests inspired of Thee; Through Thy holy Church increase Purest unity and peace. 7. Purge and sanctify us wholly From the leaven of ill; Save from Satan’s grasp unholy; To a living faith and lowly Mould the upright will; Till the olden zeal return, And with mutual love we burn; Till in peace, no more to roam, All the flock be gathered home. Used With Tune: BARMOUTH (Frost) Text Sources: translation in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1889; Tochter Sion (Köln, Germany: 1741), page 26

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BARMOUTH (Frost)

Meter: 8.5.8.8.5.7.7.7.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Joseph Frost Tune Sources: Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1889 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 56714 32165 43252 Used With Text: Bounteous Spirit, Ever Shedding

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Bounteous Spirit, Ever Shedding

Author: Anonymous; Jackson Mason Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #655 Meter: 8.5.8.8.5.7.7.7.7 Lyrics: 1. Bounteous Spirit, ever shedding Life the world to fill! Swarms the fruitful globe o’erspreading, Shoals their ocean pathway threading, Own Thy quickening thrill: Author of each creature’s birth, Life of life beneath the earth, Everywhere, O Spirit blest, Thou art motion, Thou art rest. 2. Come, Creator! grace bestowing— All Thy sevenfold dower! Come, Thy peace and bounty strowing, Earth’s renewer! Thine the sowing Thine the gladdening shower. Comforter! what joy Thou art To the blest and faithful heart; But to man’s primeval foe Uttermost despair and woe. 3. O’er the waters of creation Moved Thy wings divine; When the world, to animation Waking ’neath Thy visitation, Teemed with powers benign: Thou didst man to being call Didst restore him from his fall; Pouring, like the latter rain, Grace to quicken him again. 4. Thine the Gospel voices, crying As with trumpet sound; Till the world, in darkness lying, Rose from deathly sleep, descrying Heavenly light around. Man, to reach that prize revealed, Armed with Thee as with a shield, Nerved and girt his fight to win, Quells the prince of death and sin. 5. Lowliest homage now before Thee Let the ransomed pay; For Thy wondrous gifts adore Thee, By Thy holiness implore Thee, While in love they pray: Holy! Holy! we repeat, Kneeling at Thy mercy seat; There unbosom every woe, Groanings Thou alone canst know. 6. Fount of grace for every nation, Refuge of the soul! Strengthen Thou each new creation, With the waters of salvation Make the guilty whole: Rule on earth the powers that be; Give us priests inspired of Thee; Through Thy holy Church increase Purest unity and peace. 7. Purge and sanctify us wholly From the leaven of ill; Save from Satan’s grasp unholy; To a living faith and lowly Mould the upright will; Till the olden zeal return, And with mutual love we burn; Till in peace, no more to roam, All the flock be gathered home. Languages: English Tune Title: BARMOUTH (Frost)

Bounteous Spirit, ever shedding

Hymnal: Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Edition #183 (1904) Meter: 8.5.8.8.5.7.7.7.7 Languages: English

Bounteous Spirit, ever shedding

Hymnal: Hymns Ancient and Modern (Standard ed.) #507 (1924) Meter: 8.5.8.8.5.7.7.7.7 Languages: English

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Anonymous

Author of "Bounteous Spirit, Ever Shedding" in The Cyber Hymnal 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.

Jackson Mason

1833 - 1888 Translator (from Latin) of "Bounteous Spirit, Ever Shedding" in The Cyber Hymnal Mason, Jackson, M.A., son of William Mason, Vicar of Normanton, was born at Normanton Vicarage, in 1833; and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1856. Ordained in 1858, he was Curate of Cantley, Yorkshire, 1858-59; Vicar of Pickhill, 1859-83; and Vicar of Settle from 1883 to his death, 1889. His Rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix, in English, was published in 1880. This work also contains translations of a few Latin hymns. To the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern, he contributed four translations from the Latin, one from the Greek, and the following original hymns:— (1) "Forty days Thy seer of old." (Easter.) (2) "O Voice of the Beloved." (Easter.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

C. J. Frost

1848 - 1918 Person Name: Charles Joseph Frost Composer of "BARMOUTH (Frost)" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: June 20, 1848, Westbury-on-Trym, England. Died: October 13, 1918, Greenwich, England. Frost played the organ at St. James’, Cheltenham; Holy Trinity, Westbury-on-Trym; Holy Trinity, Weston-super-Mare (1869); Holy Trinity, Lee (1873); St. Mary’s, Haggerston (1876); Christ Church, Newgate Street (1880); and St. Peter’s, Brockley (1884). In 1880 he became a professor at the Guildhall School of Music. --www.hymntime.com/tch